Do you have a cheque book?

I stopped bothering with them about 20 years ago. However I recently had to get one to pay my solicitor and estate agent whilst moving house. All cheques for amounts in the thousands. May be it is something around money laundering prevention?

I have one, I had to order it because I needed it to exchange my driving licence (EU licence to British licence).
But I don’t think I’ll ever use it again…

I have one, but can't remember actually using it for at least a decade. I had to get a new driving licence last year (expired) and can remember seeing that DVLA accept/ask for cheques, but I must have paid online 🤔
I received one a while ago for some work I did (a one-off short project) - tried to use the 'scan and submit' method, but couldn't get it to work, so had to take it into local branch (which we still have, but I hadn't used it otherwise for a decade either)

I do. I use it rarely, the bloke who cleans the chimneys likes cash / a cheque on the day. Saves me going to cash machine.

They also send car tax refunds back by cheque.

Somewhere.
Our 24 year old daughter never had one.
She thought that she could get one and the money was safe in her account

They do indeed, in some instances, require payment by cheque/postal order @somanychristmaslights

The seven services listed are:

• Application to exchange a non-GB driving licence for a GB one.
• Application for a driving licence following a disqualification
• Requests for vehicle information from individuals (companies and other organisations can use the automated online service)
• Application for a vehicle registration certificate where the original is not available.
• Applications for reduced vehicle tax for those receiving the standard rate of Personal Independence Payment.
• Application to amend vehicle excise duty details - for example up or down plating of a heavy goods vehicle
• Trade licence applications, including firstlicences, renewal or replacement

I have one but have hardly used it in 5 years. Family member sends me a cheque for birthdays and Christmas. I’ve got one now waiting to be paid in which I can do on the app.

Yes, I had to order one in 2016 when DM died as the solicitor dealing with probate wanted cheques for some payments. DH also has a chequebook and has occasionally used it. DH received a cheque recently as he had changed his car and DVLA send out car tax refunds by cheque

I got a new account in about 2017, it was a standard question if i wanted a new cheque book, woman sounded shocked i said yes. It’s never been used!! Should probably shred it. Maybe at 10 years!

I have one but used it last in 2020

@dudsville don't you have to write the amount in words also, e.g ‘forty five pounds and eighty nine pence’ ?

I don't have one but I receive cheques from my Godmother for my children at Christmas. I'm just grateful my banking app can process them, because before that I had to go to the bank to deposit them.

I needed to change the details on my V5C because we’d moved, but I’d lost the previous one so couldn’t do it online. The only way was to print a form and send it along with a cheque or postal order.

I do, but they're really old. Last time I had to write a cheque it felt so foreign and I messed up and had to start over.

My god, I thought cheques were like from the 1980s or something

Oh yes I had to pay the DVLA for something recently and had to get a postal order. I don’t understand why I couldn’t pay online like I did for my new passport - why must it be a bloody cheque or postal order??

Very odd that the guy in your post office didn’t know what it was though!

It’s not a scam, there are a couple of things that you can only do by post with a cheque still. I think in my case it was changing an address.

Not had one for 15/20 years. I can’t remember the last time I wrote or received a cheque.

DH was recently paid by cheque. We were convinced it would bounce. It didn't. I hadn't seen one for several years before this one.

The DVLA are the only organisation I know that still wants cheques.

To renew our trade plates we have to send a cheque. We have a cheque book that gets used once a year for this purpose.

I have a chequebook and had to find it last year so that I could send a cheque on behalf of DD to the DVLA, I think prior to that it had not been used for a decade and I only have it as a legacy because I have had that account for so long. My newer accounts don’t have cheque books

When my DD told me that they only way to pay the DVLA was by cheque I didn’t believe her, she was 25 and has never had a bank account with a chequebook or had a clue what a postal order was.

I have no idea why the DVLA is stuck in the 20th century it is an embarrassment to the government

In theory, somewhere?

I wouldn’t be able to whack it out and write a check though.

Dh and I stayed at a b&b a few years ago. We booked it and turned up ready to pay at check in. They only accepted cash or cheques. 🥴

Now this was a very rural b&b probably 20 miles from the nearest town. There was a dodgy cash point at a petrol station that charged like £6 somewhere before there. But anyway, not somewhere with a bank or cash machine anywhere nearby. And who goes away for the night and brings their bloody cheque book?!

We ended up having to drive some ridiculous distance to get money out to pay. They wouldn’t take a bank transfer because they ‘didn’t trust it.’ 🤷🏻‍♀️