<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by pdjcrawford:
Does anyone still use cheques in the mail to pay their bills of any kind?? In this day and age of internet banking with next business day crediting to one's account and the ability to setup future payments of bills, this does seem very outdated.
Come to think of it, I don't even know where my chequebook is. Under a 3" thick layer of dust somewhere, no doubt! 
</font>
You don't live in the UK. You simply HAVE to have a cheque book here to pay some things ... though Amex is not one of them !