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From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Credit card carbons ("No, you can't have them")
Message-ID: <1052@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 00:55:02 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 00:55:02 1986
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Reply-To: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

I have a Canadian Esso (Exxon to you southerners) credit card.  A year
or two ago I bought gas at an Exxon in Chicagoland with my card.  Lo and
behold, with my next statement was a machine-generated copy of my credit
card slip, complete with my signature.  I would guess that they use the
carbons (perhaps they are special carbons) and a machine automagically
reads them and tells the customer all about what he did.  Conceivably
it could save them the hassle of shipping large amounts of paper
back and forth across the country, and/or keyboarding expense.

Naturally, if you use a Master Card to buy your gas, you'll never see
these, but Master Card probably has warehouses full of them ... :-)

John