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Originally Posted by hammertime
YES. Initially it was noticeably lower for orders sent to NJ for grading, to the point that I could tell from the grades which facility it would be shipping from. But now it's brutal from CA as well. And not just less 10s, but 8s and lower as well. Someone on IG said they heard PSA was testing out computerized grading in NJ which may account for the harsher grades. If that's the case I wonder if it's now been rolled out to CA as well.
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The computerized grading is my assumption on how things were progressing. It is the only way for PSA to keep up and moving forward with 1.3 million cards per month. We all know a large chunk of that is ultra modern and pokemon. Cards that they can blast through the process the fastest and make the most return.
Forcing all cards to be put into card savers is a requirement for cards to be moved through the machine process. They probably have robots picking up and moving card along an assembly line. The new centering rule can be adhered to since that is easier to calculate with modern cards.
For everybody who is screaming for AI grading, it is possible that this is a taste of what that would look like. Super enhanced computer imaging will pick up and knock cards down for very small blemishes which weren't really calculated in before.
This is all speculation of course, PSA isn't likely to come out and state changing standards, procedures, etc.