Losing Your Bank Card
I did this once in December 2004, and I thought I had trained myself never to walk away without my card. Last night everything went wrong. I realised my card was missing when I tried to pay for a new camera earlier today.
How do I dig myself out of this mess?
- Get my passport and red bank book as ID
- Jenny calls 114 to get the nubmer of my bank and calls them to check that no one withdrew money from my account after I walked away. No one took out any money so the machine must have swallowed the card.
- Jenny calls China Merchant Bank who tell us that there is nothing they can do to help us until Monday after Tomb Sweeping Day.
- I take my passport and red bank book to ICBC to replace my card. They tell me I have to wait one week for a new card.
- Our work around is to transfer my ICBC funds to a new account, which I setup on that day. I walk out with a pristine ICBC card for my new account. This process takes 15 minutes and costs me 15 RMB.
- The next step is to tell ANZ to change my standing order so they send funds to my new account.