GOT GRADES TODAY, BUT NOT FROM DEC 3 BUT DEC 16

I got my order/grades today from PCGS.....The grades are ok, but the weird thing is that i have 2 orders in...
Dated Dec 3
Dated Dec 16
But the one i got today is the Dec 16th and NOT the Dec 3 (which is two weeks earlier) I called PCGS and there like no thats normal it does not matter when they come in,.......yea what ever...... Did this ever happen to anyone else???
Thanks David
Dated Dec 3
Dated Dec 16
But the one i got today is the Dec 16th and NOT the Dec 3 (which is two weeks earlier) I called PCGS and there like no thats normal it does not matter when they come in,.......yea what ever...... Did this ever happen to anyone else???
Thanks David
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Why grading times seem random
It's because they are.
I sent 2 modern order on 10/28 and 2 on 11/18. First I received one from 10/28, then both from 11/18 a day apart. So I called to ask what happened to the other order from 10/28
The way the guy explained it is they have two areas of the vault (actually the guy said they have two vaults, but that's another story).
One area of the vault is for orders they track for time guarantees and the other half of the vault is not tracked. When a grader needs some boxes to grade, the vault manager goes and gets them out of the vault and brings them into the grading room.
The timed boxes get priority and processed in order, but the other half of the valut is taken out at random. So if you have a modern or ecomony submission it's sitting on the other side of the vault. If yours is in a box that got pushed to the back, it's going to stay there awhile until they rotate them once in a while.
So if your ecomony or modern order is taking longer than everybody else's, it's because your order is sitting in a box near the back of the shelf and hasn't been lucky enough to have been picked yet. It's not done in a first in first out order.
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