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fauigerzigerk on Oct 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commiss...

>I tore up my last cheque book ten years ago

I never had a cheque book, but I have a faint memory of my parents using cheques back in the 1970s :-)

arethuza on Oct 3, 2019 [–]

I got a cheque a few weeks back from HMRC and it was the first one I'd personally seen in over 10 years - it seemed like something from a different age.

ggm on Oct 3, 2019 | [–]

A girlfriend got her IRS refund in the 1970s on a cheque printed into a hollerith card!

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