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Originally Posted by entwisi
...To be honest, the cheque system is one that is dying on its feet and all Banks would like to see teh back of them as it costs a massive amount more to process a cheque over an electronic transfer...
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I've always thought that this is exactly the reason banks make cheques clear over three days: Technical advances in the rest of the system make transfers instantaneous, but you have to employ someone to do manual labour with cheques. Even though cheque clearing should be as instantaneous as a bank transfer, making it take days rather than seconds makes it a much less attractive technique, so demand (or lack of it) will kill off the cheque.