Used a money order once.
Even had a cheque book. I think I only ever wrote about 3 cheques.

But BBS fees and Internet fees, I would just double envelope it and send it off. ISP I would send 6 months of fees at once.

Then ISPs started taking direct deposits.

Or just a regular old post on Fedi, to be honest.

Waouh. !!!

Also, in case you're unfamiliar with it, a postal order (money order in the U.S.) is a way of sending money without using a bank check.

You give the clerk the money you want to send, they create the money/postal order, you mail it with your order. It was very useful if you didn't have a bank account or if you wanted to send an international order.

For reasons (I did similar at about the same time), this makes me very happy!

I got acknowledgments, so I know it usually got there.

@rivets @fesshole

Pretty sure I paid for at least a couple of things this way. LView Pro comes to mind; possibly also CoolEdit Pro.

The shareware honor system worked far more often than people remember, and the reason was that it asked instead of enforced. Plenty of us are still building on that idea.

Framing it rather than cashing it is exactly right.

expectation / dream