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Re:Europe Is Going After Google Hard, and Google May Not Win by jshevek on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:16PM (#12102033)
> People in the US still use cheques. And they have to pay (a lot) to print those.

US citizen, and I haven't used a single cheque in over a decade.

The actual costs of printing cheque are negligible, and every bank and CU I've used gives them to customers for free.

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Re:Europe Is Going After Google Hard, and Google May Not Win by dingaling on Friday July 15, 2016 @02:31PM (#12102906)
Printing is cheap, but processing the cheques at the other end is expensive; about 70 cents each and that was with a system that scanned them at point of receipt and converted it to ACH.
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