After about a month, I finally have my new debit card. Three weeks after I ordered a new one, I called the bank to see if I shouldn’t have received it already. The woman I talked with said yes. She advised I cancel that card and have a new number sent. If that card had been lost in the mail and found by someone, they could use it to buy stuff.
So I don’t have to just memorize a new confirmation number on the back of the card; I have to learn a whole new credit card number. Sheesh! On top of that, all the automatic payment things I have set up through the old number will have to be re-done.
But now my biggest question is: how will I keep the magnetic strip from wearing out again? I’ve flipped the card around in my wallet. We’ll see if that works.
I like your blurry picture. 🙂
As a person who has had to call all the many, many places where we have automatic payments, I feel badly for you. I finally had to make a list because I forgot a couple places and got in trouble for missing payments. Stupid wonderful technological age.
I had to get a new number last Spring and have attempted to not memorize the number. So far I have been successful.
Most banks used to have a little paper/protector envelope thingy that has a special coating inside that helps protect the card. It’s open on one end so you can just slide the card out w/o taking the whole envelope out each time. You used to be able to pick them up at the branches.
And I’m so glad I’m on Matt’s WP computer. It has a special ‘unblur’ picture feature on it. Muahhhhh!!!
That is a pain in the tuckus alrightee. The bank canceled both our cards back in April due to some perceived alleged fraud, sent us new ones with new numbers, and we’re still having regular struggles with our automatic EZPass payments. We’ve updated the debit card number on-line at least three times but once the amount drains, it won’t refill unless we do so manually again. Nothing better than not knowing if you’re going to get a ticket in the mail from having driven through the EZPass lane with no money in your account. No, wait – not knowing if your car insurance payment for that month will go through or not might be even better, now that I think on it.
Translation? “I feel your pain.”
Keep it in the little sleeve. Oh, they don’t send those little sleeves anymore. Ask the bank if they have any of those little sleeve cardholder thingies.
I know those are ATM network logos on the back of your card, but the second one, the one after Cirrus, looks like the HyVee logo. When did they get into the ATM network business?
And am I the only one that keeps squinting at the picture in an effort to get it to focus? Or is it because my eyes are terrible and I’m used to not seeing things when I don’t have my glasses on so I do it instinctively.