[Fomite]

Now do checkbooks and the US

[digisign]

US banking still stuck in the 70s and encourages rent-seeking third-parties to fill the gaps.

[filoleg]

How widespread is checkbook use in the US compared to the fax use in Japan?

Asking because I had a bank account for almost a decade now, and I only had to use the checkbook twice, and it was pretty niche use-cases. I still have the same checkbook that I got back then, and I think I won't be able to go through the entirety of it even in multiple lifetimes.

Cannot comment on how widespread the usage of fax in Japan (since I haven't lived there myself), but, from what I heard from other people, you pretty much need to have access to a fax machine.

[fomine3]

I haven't used Fax for a decade as a Japan local resident individual , but maybe some businesses still heavily use Fax.

[filoleg]

Thanks for answering this. My original comment wasn't meant as a retort, I legitimately had no idea, so I asked here. Because on reddit, one can easily get an impression that one needs a fax machine access in Japan just as much as one needs a car in the majority of the US. I kind of suspected it was a typical exaggeration, but wasn't sure.