✅ Depositing Cash at the Post Office

[jzw95]

@Peter_G

I’m guessing here that it’s not so much the chip, it’s what’s encoded on the chip. And that the data needed would need to be supplied by the Post Office - so it’s not really something that could be done “just in case”.

You’re right that it is a software update to the chip (but one that can’t be done remotely), but I’m not sure it needs an agreement from the Post Office first. The statement from Nick was ambiguous, but I took it to mean that it could just be adding another ‘app’ to the chip profile that could be there just in case. Might be wrong, though.

@nickrw

One major blocker for the Post Office is that it will require us to update our chip profile – a change that we can only do by physically replacing everybody’s cards.