[lioeters]

I remember 10~ years ago when I worked in the U.S., every month I'd get an envelope with a check. I'd stop by my bank on my bike ride home to deposit it. Now that I think about it, not sure why it couldn't have been done bank-to-bank directly.. Possibly there was an associated cost that the employer couldn't be bothered to cover.

[tbyehl]

~21 years ago I worked for a small company who didn't offer direct deposit because of the cashflow implications -- having to transfer money to the payroll processing company several days in advance -- and often we'd be handed our physical checks before they'd put the money in their payroll account, so if I'd walk over to their bank at lunch they often would not cash them.

All of which is disturbing to me now but I was young and dumb and didn't stay with them long.

(A few years earlier, I had an after-school job at K-Mart and they paid everyone with actual cash in an envelope!)