Cashless Society?

I received a worthwhile cheque from the tax-man the other day. It is the first physical cheque I have seen for many years.  I now have to search for a paying-in book, and then make a journey to a bank to pay the thing in.  Why could HMRC not ask me if I would prefer to have it payed into my bank directly??

(At least they do now call it a 'cheque' .....not that antiquated term 'a payable order'  ).

I wonder if they’ll ever accept bitcoin? 

Slightly different thing........ Been to London today.  Fare paid online and digital ticket downloaded to my phone. No paper involved.

I'm finding the number of folk who buy concert tickets online has increased rapidly over the last 2/3 years.  People just download the ticket to their phone.  The group of singers I direct are going to be producing a lot less printed tickets in future.

David

Yes I download event tickets if they're available but sometimes print them out too just in case I delete by mistake or even forget the phone..

Slightly different thing........ Been to London today. Fare paid online and digital ticket downloaded to my phone. No paper involved.

Not so long ago I read a book by an English academic who lived and worked in Italy about Italian railways. He recounts how Italian railways were trying to move with the times by allow online tickets downloaded to your phone. The only trouble was that hidden in the small print was the requirement to also have a paper printed copy of the ticket. Now that sounds like efficiency

David

I use a mixture of cash, cheque, debit and credit cards. Now I've just had a lesson from my GS  on how to use my new ( to me) phone to pay contactless.

On more occasions than I'd like to admit I get the two cards mixed up which causes much amusement when I try to get cash back with the credit card. It doesn't work😳😡

'I wonder if they’ll ever accept bitcoin? '

I doubt it - seems to be far too volatile to have acquired a stable value that one can rely on.

Leave it to the nerds.

I recall a time many years ago when I was part of a cashless society, as were many of my fellow students.