Originally Posted by will76

Everyone bitching about checks, simple soultion then, don't use companies that only offer checks or wire transfers. Rip on checks all you want, if your "advanced" country doesn't want to bother with checks anymore then simply don't use companies that issue checks. For the rest of us who live in N. America (with an exception to those of you who live out in middle of no where Canada) checks work great, fast and don't cost anything.

I'm glad the US still uses checks, if not I would have had to use a company like epass and likely could have losts tons of money. It's not my fault that in some other countries the banks want to charge you for checks. Absolutely nothing wrong with checks at all, its a safe way to transfer money, a lot safer than using a 3rd party company like epass or paxum. Just because YOUR country/bank doesn't like checks, doesn't mean there is anything wrong with checks and we should stop using them, its your problem not ours. Checks are great. Why don't you people quit with the "dinosaurs" shit just because your "advanced" society doesn't believe in checks. I guess cash is for dinosaurs too??