[Elecraft] OT Private Sales of used Elecraft Rigs

[Jim Lowman]

Interesting, Stephen!  Then you are a bit ahead of us here in the US.

I receive almost all of the statements for credit cards, auto loan and 
utility bills
electronically, and pay the bills the same way.  I have to think about 
where my
checkbook is on the rare occasion that I need to write a check.

About 10 years ago, my now-nearly-87-year-old father-in-law became 
unable to
drive.  Prior to that he would pay his bills the way that he had done 
all of his
life - by cashing his check and driving to each agency to pay each 
bill.  My wife
helped him to open his first checking  and credit-card account.  He's 
still wary
of using ATMs, though, and still insists on going into the branch to 
cash his
dividend checks so that he has some money in his pocket.

As much as I hate to go to the supermarket for other reasons, I find it hard
to believe that some people still write checks there.  Granted, the approval
process has improved over the years, but it's still faster to pay with 
cash or
use a debit or credit card.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 6/4/2011 12:17 AM, Stephen Prior wrote:
> This is pretty standard practice here in the UK, and I guess much of
> the rest of Europe.  I doubt if I write more than half a dozens
> cheques (checks) a year now and they are shortly to be phased out
> altogether by the banking system here.  I can, in most cases, transfer
> money from my account to someone else's and the money is often there
> in the other account in a matter of hours and two days at most.
>
> Life is getting easier for some, but I feel sorry for some of the
> older folks with no ready access to the internet.
>
> 73 Stephen G4SJP
>