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Message:: [QUOTE="treehugger, post: 1353309, member: 28451"]I am in no way married to the U. S. Mint. In fact, there are many world mints that produce coins at least as good and even better than the U. S. Mint. As far as I am concerned, it is merely 1 source among many to feed my habit. I really believe nothing will be fixed unless the consumer starts to affect the its revenue. However, it seems as though that is unlikely to happen. As long as sales are decent, it will not feel compelled to do anything to improve itself. Its ordering system is horrible, but we still come back. It messed up big time on the bullion puck releases, but we still came back. It messed up again big time on the 25th Anniversary Set release, but we are still coming back. We are like the spouse in an abusive relationship. We will continue to complain, but we will still come back. If we really want something to happen to alleviate the current shortcomings of the Mint, I'm afraid the best solution is to stop buying. The problem is, as mentioned above, the chances of that happening are slim to none, due to the fact in some people's minds, the U. S. Mint is the only 1 in the world. To make a long story short, we should just get used to the Mint's behavior until we are seriously ready to do something about it.[/QUOTE]