That sucks. Powder is trickling back here little by little but only in small qty. From what Ive heard by law the manufactuing company can only ship 100lbs per day from their loading dock. I dont know how much truth there is to that though, multiply that times all the recent hoarding and the math it depressing.
EDIT: found this out there
UPS delivery trucks are not Haz-Mat certified, therefore they are limited to carrying only 100 lbs of powder per truck. Any more than 100 lbs requires Haz-Mat certification, a route plan, and placards on the truck.
When we ship powder, we have to break it down into 100 lb chunks and call UPS to have extra trucks pick up. On a good day, we can get 6-8 trucks to ship 600-800 lbs of powder. But we may have 1,200 lbs of powder to ship, so as a result, we have to hold the extra 400+ lbs for the next day's trucks. With new orders coming in each day, we get backed up sometimes by 3-4 business days.
The same thing happens at the UPS hubs. They split the packages up to keep it under 100 lbs per truck. So if they only have 3 trucks running from our local hub in Bowling Green to the next hub in Nashville or Louisville, they only haul 300 lbs of powder that day. The rest of it sits at the hub until they have another truck free. We don't ship Fed-Ex, but I would guess they operate the same way. It's extremely expensive to certify all your drivers and carry Haz-mat insurance on a fleet of trucks.