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Posted By: barrysloate

Among the many problems is that while the practice of grading a card is really an art that takes years of training and experience, I think in the real world it is more assembly line kind of work.

Graders have too many cards to examine in too short a period of time, and the quicker a card is processed, the greater the bottom line. So there has to be some level of sloppiness that occurs.

It is also tedious and repetitive work, and as I've previously pointed out, I don't know what kind of eye fatigue one gets looking at corners and edges eight hours a day, five days a week. That is not a job I would envy.