Ha! Haven’t heard of that, Dave, but I receive so few cheques (I genuinely don’t recall the last time I received one) it’s not really a problem for me to call in to our local PO to pay-in.

My wife received a cheque a few weeks ago for a very nice tax-refund, but she doesn’t recall any others within the past year or so.

Cheques are becoming something of a Dead Duck here in the UK (and, I guess, in Europe) - the American-owned company I worked for until I retired, and which my wife still works for, hasn’t paid wages and salaries by cheque for at least the past 25 years - all paid by BACS Transfer direct into employees’ bank accounts - and they discontinued using cheques to pay suppliers just before I retired, about 11 years ago, they only pay by BACS or other forms of bank transfer.