zip code at gas pumps
I know the answer to this question has come up before but have forgotten it. Being from Canada, I do not have a Zip Code to put in when it is requested at the gas pumps. I know there was a formula usi...
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almcc wrote:Rover_Bill wrote:
It's also a pain for USA drivers in Canada. While RVing in Alberta this summer, I hit a lot of Canadian fuel pumps that refused my USA credit cards at the pump and had to go inside to pay for my fuel. Such is life when traveling in a FOREIGN country (both yours and mine).
I'm wondering if the problem relates to "chipped" cards with the Canadian stations requiring a chipped card and a PIN number. Maybe when chipped cards become universal for US folks their cards will work at the Canadian pumps.
The work around (numbers from our postal code plus 2 zeroes) works almost 100% of the time for us in the US.
Not sure, but my US chipped cards worked fine in both my trips thru western Canada this year. However they'd always insist on making a test transaction setting a max limit before I could pump. Then with the actual amount known they'd make a second transaction and cancel the first one. That doesn't happen on US transactions at the pump with chipped cards.
