As a Canadian I was lost and confused when visiting the States (in the before time) and a gas pump asked for my zip code. So I put in the one and only zip code I know. I bet you can guess.

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enlightens 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Glad you could come visit from Beverly Hills ;)

EDIT: actually, depending on your age and what you watched on TV, maybe you were visiting from Boston?

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s3graham 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I used to use that one too, but you're supposed to put the 3 numerical digits of your postal code followed by 00. (I have no idea how you're supposed to know that though.)

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OJFord 4 days ago | parent [-]

Really? Or does that just work because it's numbers? I can't imagine how that's useful because without the letters the same 12300 could be in Vancouver or Montreal couldn't it?

	▲	s3graham 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know much about credit card validation, but I have the impression that the zipcode is just one more correlation that tells them you're more likely to be the real owner of the card. If the 3 numbers I type match the 3 digits of the owner's postal code, it's probably a reasonable signal that I'm the owner (even without the letters).

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DonHopkins 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHjMEwZt5OE

	▲	Waterluvian 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Close! https://youtu.be/XanjZw5hPvE?si=Og-5iyLzjxebT6EF I was inputting for ages.

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ethagnawl 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Did it work?

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farrisbris 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

It probably did. I was in the us this summer and was similarly confused that the pump wanted a us zip code for a foreign card. I input the zip for the address i was staying at and it worked...

	▲	ethagnawl 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Huh. I'd always assumed the zip code was validated against the card's billing address but maybe it's actually for some kind of market research. I'll have to try myself.

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Waterluvian 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah. Random numbers wouldn’t but it did. I assumed it had to be a valid zip code.