Originally Posted by sdsearch

WalMart also does AMEX Bluebird (sort of an alternative to a checking account). (You can sign up for Bluebird online or at a Walmart. The singup is free, and there's no monthly or annual fee.) In turn, you can load your Bluebird account at WalMart with Visa debit cards that have a PIN. (You can theoretically do MC too, but Walmart seems to handle Visa better than MC for Bluebird loading.) And Bluebird keeps offering free checks with free shipping online (supposedly there's a charge, but there's constantly a promotion for up to 100 checks being completely free).

So if you set yourself up with a Bluebird account (which costs nothing), you can load that account with Visa debit cards with a PIN at Walmsrt, then go home and send Bluebird checks to Diners Club (or any other credit card) and that should work since Bluebird checks work like normal bank checks. You'll have pay for a stamp, though.

While this is a procedure thought up by Manfuactured Spending fans, virtually the same procedure can work if you're trying to pay a credit card bill with a debit card you got some other way (promotional, gift, unemployment, bank card, etc). Obviously, with a bank card, since it's linked to a checking account, it would seem simpler to just send the check from the original checking account, or do bill pay through the online site for your checking account, though for some people those things have fees with the extra steps of going through Bluebird might avoid.