D'oh!

[conuly]

When my debit card came, they misspelled my last name. Or, rather, they truncated it - I'd hit the character limit. So I went over, and they agreed to take out my middle initial and resend.

Sent me a new card, same mistake. How frustrating.

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Comments

[mtbc]

In the US when my local bank was taken over by another the successor just could not get my unremarkable address correct. After three different failed attempts that at least mutated it, and other mess-ups, I switched bank.

After moving to the UK I had three different cards from one bank (related to checking, savings, credit) each of which for some reason had a different variant of my name (full part vs initial, etc.).

[conuly]

Well, it does seem to me that I might have had better results if I hadn't gone in the day after Christmas, so I'm not holding this against them just yet.

[thewayne]

Go with your first and middle name initials, which also makes it hard for people to sign for things if they steal your card!

[conuly]

I mean, nowadays everything uses those pads to sign on instead of paper, and those are awful so doesn't everybody just vaguely scribble?

[thewayne]

Some of those have surprisingly high resolution, others look like you’re signing with a 1/2” thick lump of charcoal.

[dewline]

You've got me thinking about the limits of manufacturing tech re: debit and credit cards, particularly where embossed charactery is concerned.

[conuly]

How so?

[dewline]

Character string length, legibility, whether the tech is suited for all writing systems or just alphabets...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=embossed+characters+debit+credit+cards+legibility&t=ffab&ia=web

[darkoshi]

My most recent credit card replacement card no longer has the letters and numbers embossed. I presume they will all start to be made that way in the near future. Perhaps that will allow longer names to fit, reducing the likelihood of Conuly's problem. Although comparing my old and new card, the name on the new one takes up about the same space as it did before. The credit card # is now also only on the back of the card, not the front, which probably is more secure but surprised me because the numbers have always been on the front before.

[dewline]

Also, allowing accented characters.

[hamimi_fk]

That's weird and frustrating with the name thing. For some reason, my primary doc and neurologist both have my first name misspelled in their systems with an 'a' at the end of my instead of an 'e', so all my meds have this typo and I constantly worry this will mess something up for me one easy down the line. I've tried to fix it but it doesn't seem to stick?

[conuly]

That's annoying.

[greghousesgf]

Could not stop laughing at the fanfic genital names.

[conuly]

You and everybody.

[greghousesgf]

something I wrote actually ended up on WTF fanfiction but I'm not offended, I just think it was funny.

[adafrog]

Argh!

[conuly]

I know!

I need to actually make some purchases using this card, online and elsewhere, so I'm going to suck it up until they go through, then go back down and talk to them again.

[peristaltor]

Of interest concerning the Cambridge bridge article: there is a wooden bridge in China that uses essentially the same design (and almost exactly the one Da Vinci proposed). Though it's stood since the 12th century, is somehow got excluded from the example run-down.

(Saw it in a PBS doc on wooden covered bridges.)

[conuly]

Oooh, thanks.

[gwydion]

My Soldier kept having to resubmit for dog tags because they kept listing him protestant instead of atheist. Bureaucracies are stubborn.