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Old March 19th 12, 06:09 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
Peter Masson[_2_] Peter Masson[_2_] is offline
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Default card numbers, was cards, was E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)



"Clive" wrote

My debit card has a hologram on the back with an amount on it which the
bank will honour, funds or no.


That's from the time when debit cards doubled as cheque guarantee cards -
before the cheque guarantee scheme was abolished.

Peter