Of course right after the holidays they are going to get swamped with pallets of monster boxes of silver eagles.
Fortunately I sent my coins in last month so they should be in front of any 2022 ASEs that are submitted. Honestly though I just want to know what grades my coins got. I don't mind if PCGS takes a while to get my stuff back to me but they could at least show me my grades online since all of them have already been graded and are in Q&A.
They won't post grades until they ship, generally. Thats been my experience. They just recieved a world order from me today. I prefer NGC for world coins but NGC's world turnaround right now is atrocious, so PCGS got this business.
Yea thats a separate department though that would really only potentially impact normal submissions is if there was a slab and/or gasket shortage and they let the bulk department use everything they had. They've been getting hit with the monster boxes for probably about a month now from the 2022 world issues from the countries that put them out early