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Re:Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-... by greggman on Thursday November 12, 2015 @01:41AM (#10551663)
I haven't sent a paper check since about 1991 when I started using Bill Pay which AFAIK is part of nearly every bank in the USA now and has been for many many years. Not sure why you're sending checks manually. The bank decides if it's a transfer or a check. I don't care because to me it's been trivial for 24 years.

Compare to Japan where I had to transfer to my landlord at about $6 per transfer and doing online didn't happen until about 2003, 12 years after the USA.

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Re:Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-... by mixmastamyk on Thursday November 12, 2015 @01:53AM (#10551688)
Didn't say I did it manually, yes I use bill pay in this case and when I can. But, paying robots to print, mail, and deliver checks is still ridiculous when the internet exists. Not to mention the other end where the guy (I send them to a guy) deposits them.
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