On 24 November 2015 at 06:04, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
> We also have embossed cards but we don't use imprinters at all, for years. > AFAIR the last time my card was imprinted was Radisson Wilshire in LA or > some other hotel in Chicago. It was after 11 Sept 2001. The last time my card was run through an imprinter was on an airplane somewhere over the North Atlantic. They had small and light, all-plastic imprinters just for airlines. But now even that stuff is chip & PIN, though whether it's online or just expected to be low-value and not worth checking with the bank, I don't know. What if you buy an expensive duty-free watch on board with a cancelled card?. And airlines are advertising "cash-free cabins", meaning that they no longer have to make change, carry a float, and deal with multiple currencies. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
