On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 14:47:10 -0500, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 1/1/2016 11:50 AM, Gregory Morrow wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> You too, Leo, best wishes for 2016.
>>>
>>> Got to start practicing writing the new year on checks, not that
>>> I write many any more thanks to online banking.
>>
>>
>> Was in the grocery line the other day, and someone was actually writing a *check*!
> > They were middle - aged, not "old" ;-) Something I hadn't seen for ages,
>
>Just once in a while, you see that check come out. For some reason it's
>usually when there's been some other holdup that makes you even
>take note how someone's paying.
>
> > it seemed positively "antique" (although I'm "old", I haven't written a
> > check for years).
>
>Not in a store, I haven't.

I write checks often. I don't like on-line banking. I mostly use
Teachers Federal Credit Union on Long Island, they will do all
transfers, etc. via phone for members who have moved out of the area.
They were smart to service retirees who have moved as a way to keep
their accounts and retireees typically have the largest accounts. I
have my SS and pension deposited there so I call at least once a month
to have that money transfered from checking to savings to money market
accounts, they all know me and take good care of me. They have a
branch on site where I used to work so I've had an account with them
for some forty years. They have an investment service too so I also
phone to manage my stocks and mutual funds. I really detest doing
business with a faceless menu entity. Every time I call we chat so I
get to know about marriages, graduations, new babies, even the weather
and local news. It's a nice connection with past history, and with
the old timers we exchange email and pictures, they share their grands
and I share my cats.