It’s easier to do that in a geographically small country. This is a long way from happening here. We have many people here who live out in the wide open spaces without reliable access to cell service or email/internet services. To require them to pay for starlink equipment and service is likely beyond their financial ability.
I agree, but the future is hard to predict. N
I suspect that eventually Physical mail and paper currency will be replaced digitally.
I don’t know how many people know this.
But when you pay your bills electronically, most of the time bank mails a physical check
Depends on the bill. Weird, but some of them have pulled out of electronic bill pay, or make it a pain.
That’s because they want the customer to give them direct access to your bank account for withdrawing the payment, or charge the payment directly with them and pay a corresponding fee. I think the banks charge a fee to those paid directly by the bank, though I don’t know how much that is.
Expect a huge fight over that. Criminals like cash.
Dollars are a also a major currency outside the US. It’s been estimated that half or more of US currency, $6-7 trillion worth, is held outside the US. Yes, criminals like it, but the dollar is the world’s reserve currency. We want other countries to want our currency. If we lose that, batten down the hatches.
The only bills I pay by snail mail with a check are my estimated income taxes, my real estate taxes, and people who do work on my house that don’t accept credit cards. I also send birthday cards with cash in them to my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.
Letter writing is not obsolete. My latest was recent, to the scum bag contract company I worked for until I declared my retirement. It was a demand to provide documentation of my final pay, and was of course Certified Mail. In other words I’m fixing to sue your @$& if you don’t behave!
Incoming necessary mail is for QCD checks. I make a copy of each in case the gestspo should erroneously declare that I have income.
I can see the large majority of physical mail going digital but paper curancy will always be here.
I think currency will become more digitalized over time.
Physical currency and letter wiring may never completely disappear.
One of the things I like about the digital currency is that with my bank I can put recurring charges that are the same amount every month on automatic payment so I don’t have to mess with it.
I suspect that you’re right that the bank is actually issuing paper checks but I make the arrangements through their website.
I usually write snail mail letter to my elected officials, so they can be easily passed from a staffer to the big bannana.
In another month I will travel to Denmark. I was told it was essentially cashless. Don’t like that, as I am a guy that operates mostly in cash. Don’t want the government to know how I spend my money.
If you have a cell phone then the government very likely knows where you are and what you’ve been doing.
Exactly why I do not own and do not want to own a cell phone.
Did you know they will no longer accept checks this September? My accountant warned me.
How do you pay then. My accountant gave me the 1040 ES forms which include the ones for Sept and Dec with instructions where to mail the completed forms and checks
I have not heard that. How will people pay?
I pay my taxes by Allowing them to debit by checking account.
That’s because it isn’t true. By the end of September, the IRS and other federal agencies will begin to stop issuing checks.
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/news/paper-checks-going-away.html