For myself, writing cheques have been a case of supporting the older generation(s)
My GenZ child wrote their first check a few months ago. The State Department doesn't take cash or credit cards for passport applications. The guy at the post office talked them through it and their passport arrived last week.
A decade from now they'll write their second check and have to be talked through it again.
Based on the spelling, you’re probably not from the US. Until recently, there were really no “free” ways to give independent contractors money except cash or check. That’s changing, slowly.
You're Canadian. I'm surprised you didn't write cheques for rent, like I did when I lived in Canada.
No, Australian and we have been depositing money for things such as rent directly into people's bank accounts via telephone and internet banking for as long as I can remember. Well, no. I have a dim memory of taking my landlord big wads of cash in the early 90s.
Most of the passport application/ renewal process is online, but for a child passport you just go to the post office and tap your card as if you were paying in the supermarket.
I remember my dad's chequbook. It's kind of quaint to think they're still in use, like if you went into a shop and they still had that pneumatic tube system for sending messages.
I didn't know Australians use "cheque" as well, I thought that was a French term!
Most of our spelling is UK variant (aka King's English, haha) so I guess maybe French in a roundabout way