Older woman I know is about 70. She’s deliberately a Luddite. Her technology is stuck about 1995. Desktop PC for email and limited internet browsing. She refuses to buy anything online as she thinks she’ll get scammed. She’ll have her kids order something off Amazon she wants and she’ll pay them with a check. She still has a landline and her cellphone is a flip model. No online banking at all as she thinks she’ll get hacked. No ATM or debit card. Goes to the bank every couple of weeks to pull out some cash.
Her check writing and mailing method is what got her. She writes checks for all her bills and sticks them hanging out of her home mailbox (on house by front door) for mail carrier to pick up. Well, some scumbag in the neighborhood noticed and started stealing the checks and washing them. Last I heard, she lost about $20K.
Her kids had been trying to get her to at least mail check payments at the PO. She refused. She’d been doing everything the same way since the 70s and saw no reason to change. Stubborn.
They’re still arguing with her about doing online banking.
So the lesson is:if you must mail check payments, do it INSIDE at the PO. Even AARP had an article about the need to get away from checks.