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Jud wrote:

One can only hope Ken. I placed my order an hour after it became available
and got the 'back ordered' response. Last year I ordered the Baseball Hall of
Fame $5 proof gold commemorative, got the same response. After a few months
and at least 3 messages from the mint of the delayed delivery time I got a
message that I was shut out, a day after getting a new delivery date. SHM.

I just checked the order status on the Mint website and it says
"shipped" with a tracking number. The USPS website says that
"pre-shipment information has been uploaded to USPS", but it doesn't
show a "received for shipment" scan yet.

I'm still pretty enthused by USMint 2.0 -- it looks like I may have the
sets in time for a local coin club meeting on Friday, less than five
days after placing the order! Whoop de doo!

FWIW, the "back order" status reportedly started showing up after about
20 minutes into the ordering period. No one seems to know when the
75,000 limit was reached, as the order processor seems to have
discontinued the use of the "out of stock" status. [The Mint website
still shows the sets as "back ordered" even though I'm fairly confident
that orders placed today will never be filled ...]

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