I just tried to activate my updated credit card with the new expiration date for the first time since abandoning my land line and going strictly cellphone.
I updated my Mastercard records with my new "home" phone back when I got rid of the land line, but apparently the system they have for activating credit cards can't deal with cell phone numbers (the human I eventually got to talk to told me they are woking on it).
I know my phone generates valid caller ID, since I've seen it show up on the phones of people I called. I also know FPL's power outage automated system can recognize me when I call and correlate my cellphone to my home address to tell me about the state of any power outage, so I gotta wonder what the difficulty is at Mastercard. --
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