Post a cheque

I haven’t? Can you pay it in through your bank App if you have one?

can you take a photo of it, as suggested above.
i've seen people doing that.

It’s very easy to pay via the app.

I do not have a smart phone so I cannot use the app.

truman

I do not have a smart phone so I cannot use the app.

I'm pretty sure you can put the cheque and paying-in slip in an envelope and post it to the bank.

Or you could call customer services and ask them?

We have no local branches open anymore but there is one a few miles away in a large town. I got a friend to go there and pay in a cheque for me - is that a possibility?

Yes Truman - you can post it , with a paying- in slip. Make sure you write your name and a/c number at the back and take a photo of it, front and back. I’m not good at technology, but how have you posted this ?

truman

I do not have a smart phone so I cannot use the app.

Do you have an iPad or other tablet the app could go on?

We don’t have cheques anymore. I am surprised you do, usually the UK is ahead of us.

I have not posted it yet. Where I lived before I used to put cheques in an envelope and put it in the outside post box of my bank if I was shopping too early and the bank was not open. This time I would have to put it in the mail to the bank which I think would be ok. I do not have anyone to take it to the bank for me.

I used to quite often post cheques for paying in.
I always sent them to my "home" branch but think you could send them anywhere.

I've also paid them in by scanning them.

I'd be happy posting them. Never had any problems doing this. Last one was a couple of years ago but not so very different now I'd think.

In your shoes, I would risk the PO again, thinking surely it will be ok this time?

ring your bank and ask.

nanna8 cheques are quite rare now I think.
They do still exist but mostly we have card/bank/phone payments now.
I pay my window cleaner by bank transfer for example. That would have been cash in the "old days". Even my 100 year old mother-in-law doesn't write cheques anymore.

I would have to turn out a drawer here to find my checkbook! I have a business checkbook also and think I've used it once since 2016.

i asked my bank to write a banker's draft for a particular purpose.
from my account funds, obviously.
they said they couldn't do that, didn't seem to know what i meant.
when i mentioned the word cheque, trying to explain, they said would i like a cheque book for my account.
while i waited.
they brought it out, with about 5 cheques in it and showed it to each other, marvelling.
they then found a cover for it and proudly presented it to me.
they had printed/bound it the wrong way round, and the stubs were on the outside, so in detaching the written cheque, the stub was there too.
i just detached the stub and put it inside the cover.
for my records.
an interesting experience.

I do not write cheques anymore either. This is a building society cheque. When I asked why the money could not be paid to me by bank transfer, they said unless it was one of their bank accounts it would have to be a cheque. I cannot see what difference it makes. How old fashioned is that. This is a very well know BS as well.

welbeck 😱

How extraordinary! Funny but shocking too!

I think HMRC only send out cheques as well, no BACS.

In your circumstances I would use the Post Office again, or ask a friend or relative to take it to a bank for you.

I love the banking app and use it on the iPad as well as the phone.

You can opt to have a cheque or bank transfer from HMRC.

Most banks have a facility for paying cheques in, and some have a dedicated address for receiving cheques. Their websites usually have the details.

Just to let you know after I paid in the cheque last year and it went missing, the Post Office have no way of tracing it. It was put in a special envelope the PO gave me with the bank name on and yet they still could not find it. No wonder they are in a bit of a mess. I was told to wait a couple of weeks to see if it turned up. Hopeless. I did get a replacement cheque from the BS and paid it in at the mobile banking van, but the van was cancelled earlier this year. Banking is a terrible service now.

I don’t trust Royal Mail at all I have so many things either gone missing or taking weeks/months to arrive

I use the post office to pay any cheques in. Never had a problem

I use the Post Office too, less likely to go missing than posting it I would think?