After swiping my new credit card at the Post Office this morning, the clerk asked me for the last four digits of the card. This dramatically brought to my attention that this new card unlike every other credit card I have received over many years, has no embossed numbers on it face!
For those of you too young to remember; credit card transactions were initially recorded by placing the card face up in a small hand-operated machine, laying a multi-part carbon-paper interlaced voucher over the top of it and then dragging a handle across the sandwich forcing a spring loaded roller to transfer the embossed numbers to the voucher.
I haven’t seen one of those machines for a while, but for sure, if I am presented with one in future, my new credit card isn’t going to work for making the payment. Fortunately, I do have other cards with the “old fashioned” embossed numbers, but for how much longer?
Goodbye to another relic of ones past. The end of an era.