There are business niches everywhere – I should stop being surprised when one becomes visible. > But the [sports/trading/collectible] card boom had made the cu

There are business niches everywhere – I should stop being surprised when one becomes visible. > But the [sports/trading/collectible] card boom had made the current growth unsustainable. PSA was receiving 500,000 cards every five days, which was more than the company took in every three months before the COVID-19 pandemic started. The number of packages received per month rose from under 18,000 this past November to nearly 30,000 in February, and it eventually caused the system to buckle. In its statement, PSA said the company had grown from 421 employees in January 2020 to 783 this March, still not nearly enough for the surge that has happened over the past 12 months.