Credit card that is payable at a post office

Hi all, weird question I know - it`s for a friend. What they want (for whatever reason :-) ) is a credit card that is still payable at a post office. I know that every credit card I have doesn`t offer payment at a PO counter as an option.

Are there any credit cards that do let you do this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Reply to
Simon Finnigan
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Reply to
linkuk

Weird. I`ve got cards with quite a few banks (including Egg, but I get my bills online) and none of them are payable at a post office. I`ll have to see if anyone we know has an Egg or Capital One card to check.

Thanks for the heads up!

Reply to
Simon Finnigan

Here is another thought. I use a prepaid credit card that you load with your own money and one of the methods that i use is to take the reload card to the post office and pay cash over the counter and its then available the next day. I wonder if the saving stamps could be used instead of cash. Has your friend tried to buy travel euros at the post office perhaps? If he can do that he could then cash in the new currency.

Reply to
linkuk

To get a prepaid credit card sign up for an Abbey current account. They should automatically give you either a VISA Debit card or a VISA Electron card - both are debit not credit cards and both can be used to make 'VISA' payments... Coincidently, before I got my VISA Electron, I used an online system called Entropay,

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where you can make your own 'virtual VISA card' - just top it up from your debit card - again, you would not have to worry about bills at all (although i have had too many authorisation probs using my Entropay 'card'...)

Reply to
Melanie

WTF are you talking about - a debit card is *NOT* a prepaid credit card. It gives you non of the protection or safeguards that a credit card has and once the money has gone it is very very difficult to get your money back if something goes wrong as banks just don't want to know.

And VISA Electron must be most crap card payment system there is - a great many number of shops still don't accept it for payment in the UK and I suspect is very difficult to use overseas.

Reply to
Wedell

No "ordinary" credit card bills are payable at the post office but their own card is. You can also use PO Saving Stamps to pay phone bills, electricity bills, car tax, gas bills etc. Has he got any of these due. Alternatively he could buy postal orders.

Mike W

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Mike Williams

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