Often US companies want to pay me with cheques that they will mail to the other side of the world and I'll have a lot of trouble cashing. Why's that? They tell me cheques are super common and they can't understand the trouble I have with them.<p>Where I live all transactions are electronic between banks. I haven't used a paper cheque in 15 years.
Well, it's because it's because checks are super common in the US! They can't understand the trouble you have with them because paying via check is normal business practice in the US; nobody in the US has trouble cashing them.<p>Electronic bank transfers are not common. Most people would probably have to look up instructions for how to do it, and most people's banks would charge a fee for the service.