Should Paper Checks Be Abolished Like The Penny?

My pleasure.

Same, except, well, I am 56.

My first exposure to computers was the Apple ][ in grade school. My first home computer was the Sinclair ZX-81. My first modem was 300 baud and used pulse dialing. How things have changed.

It is all I have had since I dropped the landline in 2008. I actually quit making landline calls before then. I only had it for the security system and I got a new panel with a cellular modem in 2008.

I have a Polycom phone at home for work. It has a DID, so it might as well be a landline. I use the DID number when sites/companies require a secondary number since the mobile is technically my home phone.

Telecom is the original and once primary business of my employer of 29+ years. We have expanded into many other things, but the Telecom is a huge part of a 46 year history.

My first computer was the TRS-80 that I built from a Radio Shack kit. I haven't had a landline this Century, but we're not going to talk about my the suitcase brick mobile phone from the Jurassic Era that I had back in the day. I've also been completely paperless for my coin dealing and personal collecting since before the turn of the Century. (I do have 45+ TB of digital records and photos, however. Yes. I'm a digital hoarder.) I haven't sent an email this year. And I still have $3 left from the $20 bill I had in my wallet at the start of the pandemic. Like several others here, I have used checks for home remodeling, mainly because my much younger Luddite accountant threatened to remove some of my innards if I didn't. Other than that, I'm still on my last checkbook from the very early 2000s.

Just mailed, a few days ago, two cheques to our snow removal company for winter 2026-2027. Previously, in the spring, two to our grass cutting company. Don't like emailing my credit or debit card info. to anyone. Use between 15-20 cheques a year. .

We're definitely outliers of our millennial generation, but my wife and I write multiple checks per month: church giving, utilities, and contractors. Mostly because it's the only way to avoid credit card fees. Some local contractors don't even accept cards.

I'm from Canada, and the situation is somewhat similar to that in the US. The last time I used a cheque was over a year ago, for a wedding present. I didn't want the risk of cash, and I didn't have the person's details to pay by etransfer.

My city uses a service that charges a fee to pay traffic fines online, but it costs nothing if you send a check or go in person. It does seem ludicrous that you have to pay for something that involves less paperwork, but I paid the fee to avoid the nuisance.