<blockquote>It turns out, however, that you probably shouldn’t write checks of your own – even if you have a checking account. The organization in charge of processing check payments says so explicitly: “stop using paper checks,” they wrote, in a statement to Fusion.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://fusion.net/story/309392/stop-using-paper-checks/">‘Stop using paper checks,’ says agency in charge of them | Fusion</a>.