Take a look at these two tickets. I've been told they're valid tickets for the commuter rail from last month and this month. Do you see the problem? Can anyone confirm that this is for real on their own June 2011 ticket?
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It's on my zone 3 pass!
By Expat Sarah
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 5:34am
It's on my zone 3 pass! Funny.
Inner Express Bus
By anon
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 6:08am
Yup -- it's on my Inner Express monthly CharlieTicket
looks like
By DotWatcher
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 6:35am
they did a search and replace on MAY to change the month to JUN and it found this other may, too.
See original post
By anon
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:33am
Yes, that's what he wrote in the post at the top: "Replace all is not your friend."
Captain obvious
By Harmy G
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 11:42am
Thanks, cap'n!
Not on mine, I have a zone 2
By anon
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 6:43am
Not on mine, I have a zone 2 pass also. I can post a picture if wanted.
Interesting
By Kaz
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:00am
If you've got a link to a pic, that'd be great. I wonder if each print shop is responsible for their own find & replace?
No pic, but one more Zone 2
By JoeMal
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:53am
No pic, but one more Zone 2 pass for June without the mistake.
Did you buy your pass at a
By anon
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 12:30pm
Did you buy your pass at a station ticket machine? The "paper" CharlieTickets printed on the spot by ticket machines won't have this problem, since the disclaimer is preprinted on the stock and has nothing to do with the month of the pass.
This mistake will only be on plastic CharlieTickets which are preprinted with the type of pass (but maybe not all of them).
Yes, ours says that too. But
By anon
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 6:49am
Yes, ours says that too. But the July one is correct.
ayup
By joecab
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 7:07am
I have an old April ticket here and it's on there as well. I wonder when they stuck this in there?
What's on there?
By Kaz
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:00am
It says "Ticket APR be confiscated" or something?
At first I thought this was
By Where's the E-line
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 7:35am
At first I thought this was going to be how they told the fakes that guy was selling apart from the real ones. If that's not their story, that's what they should say.
JUNeed to know why the T did this?
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 8:57am
My JUN 1E pass has this JUN disclaimer, also.
My JUL pass has "JUL" right under the orange arrow at the end.
My bet: this is a nifty way for the conductors to spot fakes if they are still out there. Put the month into a weird place each month, one that moves around, and counterfitters won't be able to second guess without inside info.
Will it also protect against
By anon
Fri, 07/08/2011 - 4:08pm
Will it also protect against cabinetmakers?
Neither my June nor July
By roadman
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:13am
Zone 2 passes have this "feature", either replacing the word "may" or under the orange arrow.
I wonder
By Kaz
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:23am
If each print shop has to update their own tickets instead of being handed a master file from MBTA HQ, then some tickets will have it and others won't? Or maybe people who got them early have it...but buying it later after they realized the error has the corrected version?
I asked a co-worker for their pass today and it definitely had it...so at least I know it's not an internet hoax or photoshopping.
I get mine early
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 10:13am
It JUN have been a mistake, and they JUN have corrected it later on. I'd bet the JUL under the arrow is an anti-counterfitting feature, though.
Anyone able to check this possibility out too?
By Kaz
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:22am
A friend of mine pulled out her old January pass that she used only 6 months ago...it was marked "JAN 2010" and her February one was "FEB 2011".
It's one thing when I write the old year on my checks for the first week or two...but automatically invalidating every CharlieTicket because someone wasn't competent enough to put the right year on it at the print shop?
I buy 12 Rides on the Old
By anon
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 11:38am
I buy 12 Rides on the Old Colony Line, and they've said that all along. I guss all the ticket stock must, as I buy mine from South Station, and they feed blank stock into the machines.
Interesting side-effect
By LifeStar
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 3:57pm
My co-worker and I noticed that the July passes have a slightly different layout compared to the June and May passes. We're betting the MBTA noticed the print error, but decided to keep it on there as a way to verify if the ticket is a real MBTA issued ticket vs. the fakes that are still floating around.
The slightly modified July pass is another bit of evidence that the T is wising up on how to catch fake T-pass riders now.
But some people say their
By anon
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 5:31pm
But some people say their passes don't have this typo. So how would it be useful to detect fake passes?
Have you looked at your T pass lately?
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 5:13pm
I mean REALLY looked at your T pass?
OMG!
By Kaz
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 5:16pm
It's not a T Pass!!
It's a ssɐԀ ⊥!!
Oh, wait, it's just upside-down...
On my Inner Express Bus pass...
By Cleary Squared
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:49pm
Also got my July pass and it too has the "JUL" below the orange arrow.
My plastic June Outer Express
By WendyM
Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:25am
My plastic June Outer Express pass has the JUN mistake too. All fixed for July.