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Getting oyster pre-pay outside London
My mum's likely to pop over to the big smoke in the next month or two, but she thinks she might leave the car behind this time, she's had loads of trouble with the garage lately.
Anyway I can't have her paying an arm and a leg for getting about so I thought she could do with some pre-pay. Since she's nowhere near an Oyster ticket stop, and since she's not very au fait with computers and ordering stuff online, I thought I'd send her a card in the post with, say, ten or twenty pounds credit on it.
Snag is - I figure it's possible to use Oyster cards without taking them out of the envelope. Is there any way of temporarily disabling a card so that its credit doesn't get nicked in the post? How do TFL do it?
Failing that, I think I might give her a card in person next time I see her - but that might not be for a month or two yet. Thanks.
Anyway I can't have her paying an arm and a leg for getting about so I thought she could do with some pre-pay. Since she's nowhere near an Oyster ticket stop, and since she's not very au fait with computers and ordering stuff online, I thought I'd send her a card in the post with, say, ten or twenty pounds credit on it.
Snag is - I figure it's possible to use Oyster cards without taking them out of the envelope. Is there any way of temporarily disabling a card so that its credit doesn't get nicked in the post? How do TFL do it?
Failing that, I think I might give her a card in person next time I see her - but that might not be for a month or two yet. Thanks.
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Can you not get a card and then put money onto it online once you know she has received it?
Saying that though, my son never had a problem with his cards coming through the post.0 -
Make sure you register the card. That will if it gets lots in the post TFL will be able to refund you.0
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