PaperChecks

If you're one of the many people planning to start using more paper checks to avoid incurring a monthly debit-card fee, think again. While many merchants continue to accept paper checks, some are moving in the opposite direction, among them national grocery store chain Whole Foods.

Well, 300 years is a good run for just about anything, but it seems that the era of the paper check might just be drawing to a close across the pond. In the U.K., a board made up of major banks called the U.K. Payments Council voted to phase out paper checks by 2018. According to this Reuters...

This series explores aspects of America that may soon be just a memory -- some to be missed, some gladly left behind. From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. I left the love affair I had with paper checks over a decade ago. Now, it's plastic -- but no, I don't...