Membership cards for wholesale chain Costco don’t count as REAL ID acceptable at security checkpoints, the Transportation Security Administration says.

“We love hotdogs & rotisserie chickens as much as the next person but please stop telling people their Costco card counts as a REAL ID because it absolutely does not,” the TSA posted on social media Wednesday.

The post did not provide any numbers for how many people have tried to use a Costco card for the purposes of REAL ID.

Since May 7, adults ages 18 and up have needed a REAL ID-compliant form of identification to travel at airports. 

Compliant driver’s licenses feature a star, a star inside a circle or a bear with a star on it. Applying for REAL ID requires documents that have your full legal name, Social Security number, date of birth, lawful status and two proofs of your principal residential address.

By comparison, applying for a Costco membership requires only a valid government-issued ID and a valid residential address.

Other REAL ID-compliant forms of ID include passports, permanent resident and border crossing cards, acceptable photo IDs issued by federally recognized American Indian tribes and tribal nations, transportation worker or merchant mariner credentials, foreign passports, veteran health IDs, Department of Homeland Security trusted traveler cards, Department of Defense IDs, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Employment Authorization Card, a Canadian provincial driver’s licenses, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada cards or a Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 Personal Identity Verification Card, per the TSA website.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.