Their best year was 2001, when the Dance Card correctly predicted 33 of the 34 at-large bids, missing only Missouri (the Dance Card thought Richmond should have received a bid).
Barbara Desoer, chief technology and operations officer, recalls telling him in 2005 that a box of tapes containing credit card data had gone missing at an airport stopover.
As the most visible face of the mail service, the postie has become a target for much of the public's resentment over late birthday cards, missing wedding invites and overdue credit card statements.
Some banks also treat lost or stolen goods using the same procedures as in-store credit card fraud, requiring retailers to replace a missing item or face a transaction dispute.
Missing from the often-cited standards are specific references to many technologies that the security industry has long been pushing card companies to adopt: EMV (Chip and PIN), End-to-End (E2E) encryption, tokenization and virtualization.