I‘m 30 years old. I have never seen a fax machine and a check. I have only once used a payment slip at a machine before my phone app was able to do this.
Time to chop wood
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BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
TheFlopster@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ooh, I’ll play! I’m 40 years old. I write checks every month to pay my rent, which has to be delivered to their office either by snail mail or in person (no online payment option). The last time I saw a dedicated fax machine was my retail job in 2008. The last time I used a deposit slip was three years ago when I deposited a gallon bag of change in person with a bank teller.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
So you’re definitely old enough to know what ✏️📼 means!
then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m 38, I’ve not used a cheque since I was 19.
jaybone@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The whole medical empire in the US still uses fax machines for “security reasons”. I had to sign up for some shadey ass online fax service to send docs to my moms doctor after she got sick. And the idiots at the doctors office had their fax machine broken half the time, so they never got half the docs I sent to them.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m over fifty, and the last check I had to deal with was about 30 years ago. And the only reason to have this check back then was because I had to pay an American company for some software updates, and as I did not have checks anymore back then (about nobody had then anymore back then). I needed my bank to issue one check acceptable in the US.
It was the most expensive free update I ever had: The update was free, but shipping and handling was $10, outside US&Canada another $20, and express delivery another $10. Plus about $35 in fees to the bank for issuing an American bank compatible check and swapping local currency into US$.
Fun fact: Despite paying for “express delivery” and sending the check and the order per air mail, it took six weeks. One Sunday, the doorbell rang, and a courier right from the next airport delivered a beefy box (software was media and printed manuals back then!). In the box was a copy of the order - it was stamped as “received” on Friday morning, so they really did express delivery. Why the air mail to the US took six weeks though is still a mystery.
dingus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How have you never seen a check at 30? I’m also 30 and I receive checks now and then, and I used to occasionally have to write them. At least here in the US, most jobs give you a paper check for your first check when you just started for some reason instead of that one going to your direct deposit. I also on occasion get a refund check of some sort in the mail.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I‘m across the pond in Europe. I’ve literally never seen a check outside American movies and business books.
Denvil@lemmy.one 3 days ago
I’m 18 and I’ve seen both a check and a fax machine! My father has check books lying around, and I’m an electrician so I saw the owners bring a fax machine into a rehab center we were working at.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Was it one of those new fangled “all-in-one” printer/fax/copier machines, oa a proper fax machine, with its own handset and proprietary roll of paper?
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I still have checkbooks with the 19__ prefix printed to make it easier to write the year!
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
JFC, I love you old tech savvy people, but is this place the internet’s retirement community?
Oh well, at least I appriciate your wisdom and prefer running into you guys instead of the fucking bots that spoint absurd propaganda.
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Good crop
ickplant@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Perfect for shitposting
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Getting flashbang vibes when opening the meme
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
extract fees for the convenience of allowing you to pay a bill online.
You just need a credit card with higher cashback than the fees.
joenforcer@midwest.social 3 days ago
This exactly. I still write checks to my lawn care guy because Yardbook has a credit card convenience fee.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I thought I was being smart this way, then realized my bank charged me about $2/cheque when I bought a book of them, but only 1.50 for an interac transfer…
superkret@feddit.org 3 days ago
I’m heating my home with wood I chopped myself and have literally ridden into town on a horse once, but I’ve never in my life held a check in my hands.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Nice, are you off-grid?
superkret@feddit.org 3 days ago
No, just did a few adjustments to ween myself off fossil fuels when Russia invaded Ukraine. I can power and heat my home from renewables and wood from my own property, and don’t own a car, but otherwise I live a boring normal life working as a sysadmin.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What is with Americans and paper cheques? I haven’t seen one for at least a decade.
boonhet@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
I’ve never actually seen one in my roughly 3 decades.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 days ago
Neither has most of America?
Thus the joke.
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
Don’t like that word
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
don’t like that crop
cm0002@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I wouldn’t mind having a horse for transportation, but got damn are they expensive (both financially and physically) to maintain.
How the hell did anyone but the rich afford horses before the car‽
shani66@ani.social 3 days ago
They didn’t
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A horse is a car you can never turn off. If it dies it never starts back up.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
Poor people didn’t have horses
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 days ago
In California in the 1800s there were so many horses running around that people only bothered to take care of their saddle. Probably an exception though!
Shizrak@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Just finished chopping a bunch wood. I don’t get it /s
spujb@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
cropping is hard but my fit & steez harder
edg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean, I’ve done all this at various times. Maybe not to grab provisions, but to go get a coffee.
dumbass@leminal.space 3 days ago
No you won’t.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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