entering Canadian Credit Card zip code?

[Thamus]

I am travelling in the U.S., and I got a pay as you go cell phone down here, and I went to make a payment on my mastercard by phoning it in........ all was going fine as I entered my card info... then it got to the part where it said "enter your zipcode as it appears on your credit card's billing address"....... I'm like 'WTF', how do I enter my Canadian postal code that has letters and numbers in it??

So I entered the numbers as the phone touchpad numbers correspond, get through the whole process, then it says "transaction declined as address doesn't match"

What am I supposed to do? Why do the major credit card companies conveniently seem to forget that credit cards are supposed to be worldwide, especially in phone transactions?

I've run into the same problem in swiping my credit card at the pump at gas stations, they say 'enter zip code', and of course no way to do that with canadian postal code, so again, transaction declined.

[blahblah]

I ran into problems with my debit card in the u.s., lots of places take it, but you will find the odd one at the most inopportune time will not take a canadian debit card....... it's a piss off

credit card is ok anywhere as long as you go right to the till though, the automatic things are almost always a hassle

don't know why the credit card companies dont get it together to figure out how to accept over the phone though

[udontsay]

Nothing worse then going to a restaurant, finishing a good meal, then your card doesnt work.... happened to me not too long ago and it was totally embarrassing, luckily they were good about it and trusted me to come back later