{"id":36204,"date":"2026-06-09T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=36204"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:01:31","slug":"after-announcing-a-temporary-pause-to-value-tiers-in-order-to-protect-the-submissions-already-in-our-care-we-saw-another-surge-in-submissions-which-pushed-our-active-queue-to-nearly-14-million-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=36204","title":{"rendered":"After announcing a temporary pause to Value tiers in order to protect the submissions already in our care, we saw another surge in submissions which pushed our active queue to nearly 14 million cards. We also made a commitment to transparency, which is why we\u2019ve launched the PSA Backlog Tracker. Updated bi-weekly, the tracker uses the same numbers reviewed by PSA management. We expect Value tiers will reopen once the global backlog reaches 5 million units."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After announcing a temporary pause to Value tiers in order to protect the submissions already in our care, we saw another surge in submissions which pushed our active queue to nearly 14 million cards.<\/p>\n<p>We also made a commitment to transparency, which is why we\u2019ve launched the PSA Backlog Tracker.<\/p>\n<p>Updated bi-weekly, the tracker uses the same numbers reviewed by PSA management.<\/p>\n<p>We expect Value tiers will reopen once the global backlog reaches 5 million units.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psacard.com\/info\/backlog-tracker\">psacard.com\/info\/backlog-tra\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @PSAcard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSAcard\/status\/2064420540270678067\">Jun 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After announcing a temporary pause to Value tiers in order to protect the submissions already in our care, we saw another surge in submissions which pushed our active queue to nearly 14 million cards. We also made a commitment to transparency, which is why we\u2019ve launched the PSA Backlog Tracker. Updated bi-weekly, the tracker uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2445,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[49,33],"class_list":["post-36204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-grading","tag-psa","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36205,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions\/36205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}