There is that little tidbit as well. Luckily USAA has that so I just went on their site directly and activated it and my card continued to work after that.

ALTHOUGH if you have a debit card from ssfcu it can be a bit more...difficult to activate. Their system seems to screw up for me every time I try and get the secure code on my card so I have to go in personally and have a representative activate it for me >_>