{"id":1573,"date":"2015-03-04T02:16:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T02:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2015-03-04T02:16:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T02:16:14","slug":"death-of-the-check-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/death-of-the-check-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATH OF THE CHECK &#8212; part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The improved processing system, with faster payment processing, is providing a huge benefit to consumers and businesses, estimated to be around $2 billion a year.\u00a0 All this from the passage of the CHECK 21 ACT after 9\/11.\u00a0 The total number of written checks is slowly dropping according to Jon Moore, Senior Vice President for Citizens National Bank in Tyler. Some businesses do not accept credit cards, due to the average 2% to 4% charge for the service, but will likely continue accepting checks till they are not available.\u00a0 At the current pace, many industry analysts predict 2026 as the year targeted for paper checks to go away completely.\u00a0 CONTINUED IN NEXT BLOG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The improved processing system, with faster payment processing, is providing a huge benefit to consumers and businesses, estimated to be around $2 billion a year.\u00a0 All this from the passage of the CHECK 21 ACT after 9\/11.\u00a0 The total number of written checks is slowly dropping according to Jon Moore, Senior Vice President for Citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}