End of the Cheque Book?

[mad_mo]

Boots have announced that it's 1,500 stores in the UK & ROI will not be accepting cheques starting 1st May 2007.

I guess other high street retailers will follow suite and push more for chip & pin purchases.

I still use cheques on certain things, I guess technology is banishing the good old fashioned pen!.

Any other die hard old fashioned cheque users out there?

[True Blue Jack]

The only time I have written cheques in the past 5 or more years are Service-related, i.e., cashing cheques on deployment, paying the tailoress for doing my medals, and things like that. I've still got a couple of cheques left in a book I first opened in 2002.

[grumpyoldb]

Boots have announced that it's 1,500 stores in the UK & ROI will not be accepting cheques starting 1st May 2007.

I guess other high street retailers will follow suite and push more for chip & pin purchases.

I still use cheques on certain things, I guess technology is banishing the good old fashioned pen!.

Any other die hard old fashioned cheque users out there?

I don't think I've written a cheque in about five or six years.
It's all plastic now.

Most of my local petrol stations display signs that they do not accept cheques.

[Humble Scribe]

Yep! At the end of the month when there's more month than money left cheques come in handy especially as the cashier 'loses' it for a few days!!

[roverboy]

Only when it's my brother's birthday and I can't be arsed to buy him anything

[wolfy]

Once in a while I use a cheque for paying for things by post or fees for sports clubs etc as it saves having to carry large amounts of cash around. Many small firms/clubs don't have chip & pin facilities anyway. Where I live Asda have been refusing cheques for quite some time, as they said it slows down the checkouts. A feeble excuse I feel.

[gemarriott]

Only when it's my brother's birthday and I can't be arsed to buy him anything

Even for the kids birthdays I just transfer from my account to theirs on line.

[mad_mo]

Asda have been refusing cheques for quite some time, as they said it slows down the checkouts. A feeble excuse I feel.

I poped into a local Co-Op a few weeks ago and paid by cheque as my chip had been damaged. It took so long to print the amount using a little printer by the till, I lost the will to live.

Now I can see why Asda have refused cheques.

[roverboy]

Even for the kids birthdays I just transfer from my account to theirs on line.

But if I write my brother a cheque every year, post dated by a month, then in 11 years time, I'll have saved £5. Eh? That'd work wouldn't it? Maybe not.

[Plumber]

I still find the old cheque book very handy, not for paying for stuff at the check out or anything like that (thats all switch or cash), but for transferring cash for the UK account to the NZ account cheques are invaluable. To get anything more than a couple of hundred quid out of the cash machine would take days because of the withdrawal limits by the banks out here and expensive due to the charges it would attract. Cheques on the other hand enable me to get as much as I like with a one off charge for the transaction.

[fergo]

The only time i use cheques reguarly is for RAF stuff, mess bills etc

As has been mentioned lots of places just dont take cheques anymore.

Chip and pin far more convienient.