I had made a mint order on 1/6 with 5 GCs. They have shipped. I picked up 2 of those boxes today at USPS. USPS sometimes staggers internally so I should get the others tomorrow.

I had also made a mint order on 1/10 with 5 GCs (those replacement ones from the bad card batch I had). They say they are in process, which is usually a good sign.

All other CCs I have used seem ok as well, including one which was just approved for exemption. That's only a $1k order to set it up with the mint but it seems ok and is in process now.

I just ordered and got $10k biz GCs today from UPS. Have not registered them yet.
I could get stuck with these... but if I can burn them, these would earn me 10k SPG points.

So....

I have to hope my first order ships ok. 3 boxes to come.

I have to hope my in process order of 5k comes ok.

I have to hope my Cc ordered boxes come ok

and I have to figure out if I should return and refund these 10k of GCs and if thats going to be easy or not.

And then I have to get reallllllllly mad at the person who insisted that this thread exists to SHARE WITH PEOPLE.

What has happened is that this sharing with people has made too many people join too soon and that probably triggered something in Amex or the mint.

Now we are all screwed.

thanks a lot you know who!