“Please make cheques payable to”

AS and until we find a way to replicate what they offer (and there's no sign of that yet) then yes.

Just dug my cheque book out of the drawer and I see the last time I wrote a cheque was 2022 to the Sea Scouts! I think they were selling bedding plants to raise money and you had to place orders by post with an accompanying cheque.

I have paid in quite a few though. Late FIL used to give us cheques for things. Mind you he was in his 90s and didn't do the Internet.

I don't think everyone can do this. I've just checked mine and I'd have to send it by post. Apologies if anyone else has already posted this (and for the unintentional pun)

Ive just helped a close friend set up Internet ans app banking. I didn't mind her giving me cheques as I pay them in via my app. However, she was keeping large amounts of cash in the house to pay her gardener, cleaner and mobile hairdresser. The only one who insists on cash still is the hairdresser! It makes me very suspicious tbh!

Yes, sounds ridiculous!

What's wrong with a link to pay.

Not written a cheque since 2008 and before that it was 2002 (found my old cheque book recently).

You are able to see bacteria with your eyes?
Fantastic.

i used to buy fags with them when I’d run out of money 🙈 they’d all be smoked by the time the cheque bounced 😭

Do you not have mobile banking?

I think we can pay in up to £2000 by cheque on our banking app. Above that we pop in to a branch.

Probably more. Toilets get cleaned, money doesn't.

Also, money is handled much more than toilet surfaces.

End of the month food shop, write a cheque knowing you have 3 days grace. The good old days.

I don't get paid for the talks, my workplace does (we are a small dept in a large organisation) so the cheques go through with the standard banking. I just collect the fee and pay it in, which is straightforward with cheque/cash but really fiddly and time consuming for a transfer.

HMRC are the same - asked for all my bank details, then sent me a cheque!!

15 years ago I got a very large cheque after an insurance claim in US dollars and the bank just said it would cost me ££ in double conversion fees and they really didn’t want to deal with it - the company would not send it via BACS and in the end I had a dear friend who worked in banking in the US open an account for me there and deposited it and sent me the money electronically. I could not have done it without that connection and I just couldn’t believe that in the 21st century that’s how they dealt with it. Until quite recently people still paid bills by checque in the USA and it’s still fairly common. It’s been years since I wrote one here.

I don't even have a cheque book, or paying in book any more.
I do miss them
Great for roaches.

Only if your full time work is the same hours as their office opening.

I prefer online payments as I don't hear well on the phone and it's a palaver.

I don't know if I've actually got a chequebook anymore. Maybe in the depths of a cupboard but probably more than 20 years since I wrote one

I did receive one though. Think was a car tax refund from dvla. Paid in via hsnc app

This is bonkers. It’s very obvious how you fill out a cheque on the off chance you have to.

that’s like saying it’s a life skill to know in advance how to fill out every official form you might need in your life, because you won’t be able to work it out at the time

I completely agree about cheques, the DVLA seem to have cheques as their main payment method. I have recently had to renew my driving licence as well as change my name, this required me to fill in a paper form and pay by cheque or postal order. The same when Ds had to get a replacement V5. None of our close friends or family have cheque books, I have never had one for this bank account which I’ve had for at least 20 years. I did used to pay for my shopping with a folded cheque in the 90s if I needed to go before pay day.

That's interesting. I've never heard of a shop that doesn't accept cash Certainly none in my town as far as I know

The hospital could easily list BACS as a payment option; it is a bit dated not to - and I am old (ish) and work in private healthcare! I would suggest it to them, OP but I would bet money that a lot of other people have before now. Sounds like someone there is stubborn and stuck in their ways.

OP, all your can do re. payment today is call and if someone answers, great. If not, just leave a message.

I don't think they should stop accepting cheques (good for the oldies) but it does makes it a lot easier if patients can pay by BACS.

Yes……I have two…….doesn’t mean that I actually use them though.

I have had to ring two insurers this year to pay by card as my card has changed and they couldn't do it automatically. No option to pay by BACS. It's a pain when you work full time.

Sad but true... where has all the human contact gone.

They do accept it with just a signed letter, yes.

I can't see why they wouldn't.