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This comes up all the time. Moderately annoying situation if you ever drive in the US with a foreign payment card. The gas pumps use some "ZipSecure" thing that requires you to enter your zip code to authorize a credit card payment at the pump.

... Except I don't have a zip code. Which usually meant I either had to prepay inside (and then go back inside to receive the remaining balance as cash) or leave my credit card unattended with the clerk while I filled.



This is indeed annoying. I've found that entering 00000 as the zip for a foreign card quite often works (though not 100% of the time).




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