FTFY. The US is the only country in the world that I know of where writing personal checks is still commonplace. In Europe they're thoroughly obsolete, and in Asia, where they were mostly uncommon in the first place, even the few once check-happy countries like Singapore have pretty much migrated off.
Norway BTW. Perhaps our small population makes it easier to just end old legacy shit?
Mostly for work to be done on a house, and otherwise to get around the absurdly low limit on bank cards.
I was surprised in Switzerland they have kind of a reverse cheques (probably the wrong term), when you buy many things online, or dealing with taxes, the firm will send you a payment slip, you can then take that to your bank (or now scan with the banks app) and authorise the funds.