Accurate Package Tracking Has Gone Way of the Dinosaur

inkjunkie said

How many of us had a job that took credit cards...when we had to look up the cards in a book?

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Yep, or later call into the issuing company to verify the account? Back in the early 80s I worked at a retail store that required us to call into the credit card center and write the authorization code on the imprint slip after we had imprinted the card.

Most people in the modern word don’t realize that crdit cards have raised numbers and other info so they can be run through one of those manual imprint machines and capture the information on a paper slip.

3 copies with carbon paper in between. White copy for the drawer, pink copy to accounting and the yellow copy for the customer.

All of the sales information and prices were hand written on the imprint slip. Press hard with the pen, you have to go through all 3 copies.

Paying by credit card back then took a lot of extra time to process it all before you could serve the next customer.