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Anson"old fat men, one very nice lady, and a smart 15-year kid collecting cardboard"
Now that's funny!
Honestly, my take is that PSA grades substantially more cards than GAI and SGC combined. At one point, PSA had as few as 7 graders to deal with a HUGE influx of cards to grade. As any successful manager knows, the more your team tires, the number of mistakes grow proportionately. I can understand how PSA may have shortcutted or mislabeled some cards. It's not an excuse and certainly PSA should be standing behind their mistakes. But, it's much easier for a grading company to manage it's workload when they're dealing with substantially smaller numbers of submissions.
I agree that PSA probably needs to retool it's model and possibly expand their grading staff with Prewar-savy employees. They may have fallen suit to what most corporations are doing.....stretching their workforce by "rightsizing" (downsizing) and expecting 3 or 4 peoples' production out of a single employee. An operations management consultant could really help out there.