I made a gold and silver purchase from my Chartered Bank's Precious metals division back in early October taking advantage of that big dip. They finally answered my Order status inquiry and said that they were overwhelmed with orders. Their usual delivery is within 15 business days and now it's almost 40+ business days since. They didn't say it but I think they're waiting for stack to come in so I think they've been back ordered by my intuition.
My order was a 1/2 Toz gold MAple leaf and a 10 Toz Stacker bar.
Long lead times.
There's a huge run on Investment grade silver here.
BTW, I am 400 HP from my 30k HP milestone.

!PIMP