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I'm located in Germany and when asked I (and others I know) always say 25869. That's Germany's smallest zip code, a remote island with only 5 people living there. Stats should look funny for that zip :) What's the smallest zip in the US?
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I'm not sure if this is always the case. ZipCar (a short term rental car company) provides a credit card that can be used to pay for gas. When you insert the card at the pump, the machine only asks for your ZipCar membership number. This leads me to believe that perhaps a card that was issued in a foreign country might prompt the user to enter something other than a Zip Code.
Nope. I've done this with a Canadian card. It prompts for the zip code (at least, at many gas stations along the east coast).
I'm located in Germany and when asked I (and others I know) always say 25869. That's Germany's smallest zip code, a remote island with only 5 people living there. Stats should look funny for that zip :) What's the smallest zip in the US?
Quite often they don't even get it.
If you ever need to return something they are entitled to your ID which has your entire address anyway. If they ever swipe your license on their mag scanner, it contains everything about you. Your state DMV sells your info to corporations for pennies, in fact sometimes under law it's required to.
If you ever need to return something they are entitled to your ID which has your entire address anyway.
Or here's another scenario, which actually happened to me:
I bought office supplies and one of the items bought was accidentally scanned twice.
I noticed this after paying, but immediately complained.
In order to refund my money for her mistake she insisted I provide my name and address.
I lied. I very obviously wrote a non existing person at a non existing address on the form she insisted I fill.
Do you think I was unjustified to lie in such a situation?
Your state DMV sells your info to corporations for pennies, in fact sometimes under law it's required to.
I needed a modem there and then so went to a high street electronics store. I got the empty box of the one I wanted down from the shelf, took it up front, paid and they went to get me a full box from the back. 10 minutes later and the assistant comes back. They have no modems.
This is mildly annoying, but fine, so I asked for my money back, which is when they started demanding my name and address. When I refused the assistant went to get the manager, who said they needed the details to process a refund. I said it wasn't a refund, you took my cash without giving me a product. I offered to call the police if this was giving them trouble and then it came down to "well the software won't open the till without an address".
So... it's some programmer's fault!
Doesn't everyone just fill in 90210? or does give away my age...
There was a show called "90210" (a Beverly Hills 90210 spinoff) that Wikipedia says just ended last month, so choosing that shouldn't show your age. (Although your question obviously did.)
I'm located in Germany and when asked I (and others I know) always say 25869. That's Germany's smallest zip code, a remote island with only 5 people living there. Stats should look funny for that zip :) What's the smallest zip in the US?
It's kind of crazy that people expect to go unidentified after having used a debit or credit card with their name and a globally unique id on it. Anyone who cares at all about it should have used cash.
Credit Card companies have rules in their merchant agreements that prevent companies from using credit card numbers as unique identifiers.