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In the UK the credit / debit cards I've had issued in the last few years have been flat, with details just printed, so that level of manual processing is presum
by fredoralive 1y ago
In the UK the credit / debit cards I've had issued in the last few years have been flat, with details just printed, so that level of manual processing is presumably defunct here.
- OJFord 1y agoDon't forget chip & PIN is state of the art novel tech in the US. (From memory I think it was required here in the UK from Valentine's day^ in something like 2005.) (^I remember the day better than the year because the ad campaign was something like 'I <3 PIN'.)
- bobthepanda 1y agothat is mostly because major US retailers sued Visa/Mastercard to make it not enforceable via lower interchange fees, since then they would have to change tens of thousands of point-of-sale systems at each one