alt Hacker News> meaning CBP personnel would have to manually untangle the amounts. Processing each individual refund takes about 5 minutes, which across 53 million entries works out to over 4.4 million hours.
Assuming nobody looks at the requirements of the problem to write a single line of code in order to tool up to the task.
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arealaccount • today at 6:46 PM
They'd have to beef up the servers to accommodate the extra processing and we all know how much RAM costs these day
CBP says it needs 45 days to build new software before it can start writing checks.
Honestly? It doesn't seem unreasonable if it really is 45 days.
Imagine if they started working on software additions for mass refunds, and the decision went the other way? And they didn't have to refund?
Wouldn't they be wasting money for no reason?