Your Dad is probably not alone @Telamelo. Unfortunately, the move to eliminate cheques and then cash will not stop. Both types of transactions come with a cost and when usage drops below a certain level it no longer is viable. For sure businesses impose a fee for EFTPOS but overall this is less than the cost of dealing in cash which the business pays and then passes on to the consumer in some form. Change is difficult for many at the best of times and this is one of those times I'm sorry to say. The last time I wrote a cheque was over a decade ago and while I still carry cash, it's for smaller transactions (coffees and the like) and eventually will also go the way of the Dodo at some point. I'm pretty confident the issues of downtime with the availability of electronic access will be resolved as technology advances.
The argument we should wait for older people to die before introducing these measures isn't a goer either.
It didn't fly when decimal currency was introduced and it won't fly now.
