"Mary Sauer" wrote in message
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Our local water utility company will not accept electronic payments, but
our bank spends their own $.39 to mail a check to them. Wal-Mart has quit
accepting checks, they only use a check for the account and routing
numbers. I still have to write checks for all the children's various
gifts.

The grocery store I go to does that too, with the check. I date and sign
it and they run it through and hand it back.

I'm just getting so I can remember how to use the debit card though. I
never can figure out first try which way it goes. I can use it online pretty
good, though (LOL)

I remember long ago, there were rumors that "in the future money will be
obsolete and people will use plastic cards". The first time I saw a grocery
store scanner (on a segment on the news)I was amazed. But, we had heard for
years that was the point of the upc product code being put on everything.

So far, we don't have to have it tattooed on us (at birth) but it's
possible. Maybe there's coding in the "shots" that babies supposedly have to
get at birth (if they are born in a hospital anyway)

I sometimes have thought, what happens if something comes along that
replaces computers? I don't know what (if I did, I'd be the new Bill Gates,
in on the ground floor) but you never know.



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Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
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"Uncle Grumpy" wrote in message
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"Mary Sauer" wrote:

I'd recommend online banking to anyone.

If my condo association would convert to EFT capability, I'd never
have to write a check again.