We stopped passing the basket during covid, putting it at the back of the church for people to put money in as they enter. It seems a much more efficient way to do it, sometimes it feels like a very artificial break in the progress of the church service to wait until the basket has been handed to each and every person before proceeding. It also puts people on the spot, which can be awkward for those who are visiting, or who give sporadically based on a sporadic income or similar, or indeed who simply don't want to put anything in the basket this week.
The basket in the back of the church approach is probably becoming more common, but there is a reason for every part of the worship service, in most cases dating back to the earliest days of the Church.
Of course, that wouldn't apply in the case of denominations that have junked almost all of these "parts" in favor of the people gathering for little more than to hear a preacher tell them something about Christ that everyone within hearing range has heard a hundred times before.
In the case of passing the plate, the concept of the people of God giving to and sacrificing for the work of Christ's church is an important aspect of our Faith. Ceremonially, that happens at a certain time during the worship service.
To merely hope for contributions to be slipped into a basket when the service is over, and while people are exiting, is rather individualistic, not at all an act of the people as a community, and it's rather materialistic as well, if you think about it for a moment. That's because doing it that way has as its ONLY objective getting the money.
