i hope itll will have an exp of 5 years
The only thing here that I would say is - why hasn’t this happened already? Banks surely don’t want to be continually printing cards so my thought process would be that there is a specific reason for the expiry of a card and therefore even if you remove the CVV and expiry on the card, it’ll still be ticking down till it is unusable.
EDIT: a quick google suggests that the expiry date is linked to the magnetic strip - so if a card has a magnetic strip it’ll eventually die - hence the expiry date.
Did not know that about the magnetic strip!
It makes sense. I seriously doubt my mag strips work on my cards longer than a few days, magnets are pretty ubiquitous in my life…
Well that is what google said so… pinch of salt!
I always questioned the need for an expiry in an ever focused “environmentally friendly” world
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I could be wrong, because I haven’t kept my old cards to check, but I’m sure I’ve had new First Direct cards that have the same number but new exp and CVV… But maybe I’m just dreaming!
I spend almost entirely on my card just in shops and restaurants. Rarely take cash.
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And it was contactless 
I signed up and unfortunately received a card with some scratches, dodgy colouring on the numbers and a noticeable CVV showing on the front.
COps were great and ordered a new one which just arrived and is mostly okay; the CVV isn’t as noticeable but still clearly some colouring issues.
I got my new NatWest card through the post, and the lack of raised numbers looks cheap, but the card itself feels thicker and more solid than Monzo’s. Is that a thing?
I just also got a new NatWest card and I don’t like it at all, feels very much like a kids fake bank card to me. Especially with the lack of raised numbers.
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Issue with the ‘flat’ cards is many car hire companies in the UK and elsewhere will not accept them.
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I’d like to see evidence of that. I’ve just had a vacation in the US and I hired a car through Avis and they weren’t fazed at all when I took out my Starling card which I was initially going to pay for the rental on. I actually ended up using my Amex card, which by the way cost me slightly more after the currency conversion, whereas if I’d used my Starling card I’d have ended up paying about a fiver less on the cost of the rental. The only reason I used my Amex card, was for the Avios points. My point being, they were perfectly happy to accept my debit card without raised numbers on the front.
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And the longer banks keep pandering to outdated practices from places like car rental firms, the longer it will take the car rental places to carry out business in a 21st century way.
It’s in the banks’ interest to blink first.
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This company will not accept prepaid, recharge or virtual credit cards - or any card on which the relevant characters are not raised (embossed).
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Like I implied, the banks aren’t really happy with car rental places having piles of imprinted card details knocking around their offices. It’s insecure, and arguably not GDPR–compliant.
And NatWest doesn’t particularly care if you can’t hire a car anyway. It will have crunched the data and decided now was the right time to enforce the change.
Good job I’m an Avis Preferred customer then. 
But very well done for finding the evidence!
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I always one of two companies expect last year where this caught me out and had to use a different CC than I had planned for.
The sorts of hire car companies that currently insist on cards with raised numbers, will be left with little choice but to change. I could also have used my Virgin Money cc in the US for the car rental and that doesn’t have raised numbers either.
Plus card arrived today 
, with stickers. No noticeable defects on the card. The coral core in the Lagoon Blue card looks very nice indeed.
Noted - this card is the first Monzo card that has activated using NFC on my Pixel 2 XL. No previous cards did, I had to manually enter them. Not necessarily a bonus, but still another positive 
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