Checks are still useful. When adulting you have to pay bills to the government, various taxes and fees. Unfortunately (yay privatization 😡) in order to accept online payments there are more than a few government agencies that have contracted with private vendors to take electronic payment. Of course this saves tax money so the government doesn’t have to expend IT resources to create a site to do this, especially in smaller municipalities, but it also generates leech middlemen who use their position to extract fees for the convenience of allowing you to pay a bill online. Fuck those businesses.

So the old process of writing a check, finding an envelope and stamp and sending it via regular post is better than giving some shitty leech company a fee for taking money from you and handing it to the agency.

Fax machines? Fuck those things. Thank goodness they’re disappearing. Expecting anyone to have access to a fax anymore is crazy. Most people don’t even have connected phone jacks at home so you have to pay an online fax service to take your document and send it for you. Lots of privacy concerns with that.