Old News in Germany (Score 1)

I've been living in Germany for a few years now and we never touch a check. It's nice that I can pay bills online, set up payments to pay automatically monthly a set amount for things like rent and also be able to give people my account number so they can put money in my account with no hassle from any other German bank. The only down side I saw is the one time I didn't receive payments for 2 months from my employer due to a transaction error, my bills got payed anyways until I went over my over-draft limit (which by the way is equal to twice that of one's monthly income). I didn't pay attention to the fact that the paychecks weren't coming in because it's easy to get lazy and not check my account, even if they do mail monthly account info. But here it works really well and has for years.