🥞 The ultimate triple stack - Daily Drop Jun 12, 2026

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☀️ Good morning and welcome back to Daily Drop!

It’s Friday, but there’s still so much good stuff happening in the points and miles world, so let’s cover a bunch of it today:

💪 Epic triple points stacking
🚗 Get easy cash back on transit and rideshare
😨 Highly sensitive info on public WiFi…
💳 Current Transfer Bonuses

💪 Epic triple points stacking

As you know, we have a cool Facebook group called the Daily Drop Lounge.

It’s where travelers hang out to learn from each other, ask questions, and even share points and miles wins.

One win in particular caught my eye… this reader just completed an elusive triple stack:

If you aren’t sure what they’re referring to, it’s the annual StubHub credits offered on this premium card.

⚠️ Side note: That card has an elevated offer of 150,000 UR points that’s ending in a couple of days… so hop on that if you’re into it.

Anyway, this reader did more than just redeem the credit… They used the Rakuten shopping portal to get an extra 6% cash back at StubHub.

I was only targeted for 4% back, sadly

Basically, that’s getting free cash back (or points) on money you’re already getting reimbursed by the credit card… pretty cool.

But the best part, in my opinion, was using the recent Paze promo (read more about that in this newsletter) to get an extra 10x UR points per dollar.

I don’t know exactly how much this person spent, but let’s say they spent exactly $150.

They’d get:

That $150 reimbursed
$9 back from Rakuten
1,500 UR points from the Paze promo

💡 Pro Tip: Instead of cash back, you can choose to earn MR points or Bilt Points from Rakuten as long as you have one of these cards, which is my preference.

In other words, spending $0 out of pocket and walking away with some coffee money and transferable points. ☕️

I love this.

Here’s why:

I always forget about this StubHub credit… I never use it, and I value it as basically nothing. Case in point… my unused StubHub credit:

But reading this win made me realize I should just do exactly what this person did.

As long as I spend exactly $150, I’m not actually spending anything… and the best part is that this credit resets in July. So I can do it once now and again next month to snag 3,000 UR points total.

And that does add some value for this credit. But it gets even better… We can add an additional stack onto this. 😏

If you’ve never used Rakuten before, you can use our referral link and get $50 cash back (or 5,000 MR points) when you spend $50.

If you add this into the equation, it suddenly becomes even more meaningful.

Anyway, this is why y’all need to just go hang out in the Daily Drop Lounge. Just do it.

Thanks, reader. 🫡

🚗 Get easy cash back on transit and rideshare

Merchant offers are among the best ways to earn easy cash or points back on high-annual-fee cards.

And the other day, I saw a pretty interesting one pop up on my Marriott co-branded cards (this one and this one).

Basically, you can earn $6 back on $15 of spending on transit and rideshare purchases, which includes the following:

Rideshare apps (like Uber and Lyft)
Parking
Tolls
Train tickets
Ferry tickets
Public transportation

That covers a lot of pretty common spending categories, so this feels like an easy one.

Plus, the offer lets you do it up to three times for a total of $18 back.

I’ve seen other people get a different version of the offer, but with a rebate of 1,000 Marriott points after spending $15.

Personally, I value those 1,000 points more than $6, so that’s the one I’d hope for.

This is yet another reason you should pay attention to merchant offers like these.

In my experience, offers from this bank’s suite of cards usually offer the best value, especially for travel spending.

Make sure you activate any offers first to lock them in before making any purchases.

😨 Highly sensitive info on public WiFi…

Hiya friends, it’s Katie here, one of the newer faces at Daily Drop.

If I’m being honest, I used to be pretty cavalier about what WiFi I connected to and what I did on the web while on public networks. Which is pretty bold for someone who had their identity stolen in college. 😧

But after starting here and working on the go, I began to wonder if I might need to get more serious about my internet safety.

When I suddenly found myself with 24 hours left to enroll in my insurance benefits while delayed in an airport for hours, I panicked because I couldn’t think of a worse thing to do over public WiFi.

But then I remembered I had bought a month of Surfshark when I went to Costa Rica last month. I quickly turned on my VPN in my laptop browser and made my benefit selections, knowing my connection was safely encrypted.

Clutch city, y’all.

Surfshark honestly makes it soooo easy, too.

I can use their VPN on unlimited devices, and using their handy web browser extension, I can turn it on and off in seconds and quickly tell if it’s working.

Once on, it protects you by encrypting your info. Then, you can safely navigate the internet without having to worry that someone nearby is skimming your personal data. It even blocks ads and trackers, so you really can be at ease using the web.

And a little peace of mind during several hours of weather delays in a crowded airport will go a loooong way. 😅

Protect your data and go to surfshark.com/dailydrop or use code DAILYDROP at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN.