Hi - can anyone tell me why my new card is not Contactless and can I request a contactless card - TIA 
They’re all contactless, have you tried it
If it’s not working it could just be knackered, if so contact in app chat
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The contactless logo is on the back
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It should be 
Activate your new card on 
app.
If won’t help, perform a chip & pin purchase in the shop 
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It’s probably this that’s the problem as @Remi says.
You have to use Chip & PIN at least once to activate a new card (with any bank) before you can use contactless (Edit: apparently online contactless might work with Monzo even without this step).
It’s a way of checking that the new card is really in the position of the cardholder and hasn’t been stolen/intercepted in the post.
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Activating the card in the app makes the new card number active (so you can use it online).
Activating the card itself requires telling the Chip that it’s ready to use, via the scripting process which only occurs during usage of Chip & PIN - either in a shop or at a cash machine.
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The rare occurrences where it may not be enough are if you try your very first transaction in an offline terminal.
Monzo is an “online-preferring” debit card, which means that it always tries to process a transaction online if it can. If it can’t, though, it will fallback to offline processing (normally). Offline processing won’t be allowed until the card has been activated, which occurs during the scripting process I described above.
In fact, scripting occurs every time you use Chip & PIN online and, amongst other things, resets the risk counters on the card so you have a recently-authorised transaction for SCA purposes.
Basically, what I explained is the detailed technical reasoning on how it works and the help article is the fairly simply layman’s explanation. In the vast majority of cases, the detail wouldn’t matter as most people would naturally end up doing an online Chip & PIN transaction sooner or later anyway (and probably before they did their first offline one). This is even more true now that SCA effectively forces an online transaction after a while.
TL;DR the card will ship ready to use for online payments, Chip & PIN (online) and probably contactless (online) according to the help article; offline not-real-time-authorised transactions may require an online Chip & PIN transaction first.
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Thank you everyone for your comments - I followed your advice and despite the card not having the contactless symbol on it - it is contactless 
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It does, it’s on the back
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