bitful

I always buy my one-month passes and top up pre-paid credit on my Oyster card online. It takes me seconds, one click or two, it's done. Call me irresponsible, but I trust people to keep my credit card number safe and I let them store its details for my next visit.

The greatest feature of the Oyster online store is the email reminder that you can set, from 4 to 28 days before the expiry, to prompt you to renew.

Except when they fail to send it to me (or I fail to receive it, although I doubt it because I checked all the spam folders I could think of) and my pass does not work at the gate. And when does that happen? On a bloody Tuesday morning after a bank holiday Monday when everyone is buying or renewing their weekly passes.

So now I've got an additional monthly recurring task in Outlook, 'Renew Oyster Pass' right next to 'Change water filter' and 'Replace monthly contact lenses'.

…and smile :-)

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