There are practical things to consider, such as checking it is not a duplicate and will it be easy for the emergency services, a taxi firm, or the post office to find it?

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Consider that 25% to 40% of checking accounts at the big banks are money losers.

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For those reasons, you may want to consider having your payments automatically deducted from your checking account.

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Credit unions would be especially vulnerable to the loss of interchange fee revenue: about half say that they will reduce or eliminate free checking and rewards debit cards, and almost 9% say they will consider reducing their staff.

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