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I made my first CoD payment (for an Amazon order) when I lived in Japan in 2004.

• vidarh 10y ago
  I'm not surprised. Remnants of the old postal payment methods have been persistent in many European countries too. I'm from Norway, and despite being born in '75, between CoD and post/bank giro's cheques got killed off early enough that prior to moving to the UK in 2000 I only ever have vague memories from my childhood of my parents paying with checks - it was unusual in the early 80's. In the UK I still need a check book for the occasional (now finally very rare) instance where someone insists of being paid that way (the UK in theory has a giro system; in practice it only sees use for some very limited usage areas) Because these methods were so widespread and credit card penetration was low (due to strict consumer credit laws, very, very few credit cards were available well into the 80's, and debit cards were often just ATM cards without a card number), they carried over to many online shops too.