I just went to the West Hills California post office and there was a sign on the door saying they were unable to take debit cards due to Hurricane Floyd. Huh?? Is there any connection, or is this a convenient excuse and part of the problems ATM's have been happening. I did not choose to stand in line to hear them tell me this in per

-- smfdoc (smfdoc@aol.com), September 21, 1999

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It's something up with the phone lines that connect banks. Drill down about 50 threads and read all about it. It started last Friday.

Got Cash?

-- semper paratus (almost@always.ready), September 21, 1999.

Our company processes many credit card transactions each day and we have been informed that a major merchant account center in New Jersey had been flooded and was slowly coming back online. This has had an impact on our business since Saturday and could last for a few days. As usual, nobody has an answer as to when they will be back to normal. Just another small look at things to comebatten down the hatches mate.

-- Truth (at@the.ready), September 21, 1999.

There was debit card problems on Mon. night, the 13th in Orange Park, FL. It had nothing to do with Floyd, because we didn't even have a good breeze. Folks had to pay in cash, cards didn't work. Don't know why.

-- Nana (drac@mediaone.net), September 21, 1999.

My card was delined at a major do it yourself depot Saturday. The checker offered to let me call from the register. The company said "don't worry - it's not your card, or your money - it's the computers becuase of Floyd- we'll have it all fixed monday" I thought it was interesting they new it would monday for sure. Any way the checker said oh that makes sense. Your first for that today. But you should have seen it on 9/9. I said - excuse me? 9/9? She said " oh it was a real mess 9/9, card were declined and things were up & down all day. I hope it doesn't happen again today" Never heard that in the news.

-- Debit Delay (mycard@nowork.com), September 21, 1999.

Check this thread: <:)=

5000 ATM'S across the US

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 22, 1999.

High-speed cheap telecommunications makes it feasible, and common, for merchants and banks to arrange to have their debit and credit card transactions processed by companies whose facilities may be located thousands of miles away. Facilities located on the US East Coast may be processing transactions for anywhere else in the US.

[My qualifications: For eleven years I worked on real-time electronic funds transfer (EFT) transaction systems for Deluxe Data Systems, which for much of that time was the largest third-party processor of EFT transactions. While on vacation in Hawaii once, I made sure to save my receipt for a cash withdrawal made from a Hawaiian bank's ATM that was processed through the Deluxe Data Systems center in Wisconsin.]

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), September 22, 1999.