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huh?

I hit enter by mistake before typing my post.  I just edited the original post but it doesn't appear to have updated.  I'll try again.

So as I often think about reorganizing my collection, one thought that I had was to penny sleeve a portion of my collection that I am more likley to look through and show to others.  I currently don't use any sleeves at all.  So I had been thinking about maybe sleeving some cards and putting them in smaller boxes.  I don't think I am actually going to end up doing this, but during this thought process I noticed something odd.  It appears that ultra pro penny sleeved cards are not fitting into BCW boxes.  

I got my son a 200 count BCW box to store some of his cards.  I tried putting a sleeved card into the 200 count box, and the card didn't fit.  The top of the sleeve would get crunched when the box was closed.  It would even move the card slightly at an angle.  I was confused because I thought a lot of people used these standard boxes for sleeved cards.  I put that box together basically perfectly, so the box is straight and lined up.  Do ultra pro sleeves not fit in the standard BCW boxes that have the cards horizontal?  Do maybe only BCW sleeves work?  I think those are slightly shorter.

Also, I sleeved a thick card with a thick card sleeve, and that card didn't even fit into my standard 3200 count full lid boxes.  They fit in the row, but the sides of the row squeeze the sides of the penny sleeve so they don't sit in there nicely.  I didn't think that a thick card sleeve wouldn't fit in the 3200 count boxes either.

What's going on here?  I have never heard of sleeved cards not fitting in these BCW boxes before.  

I recently sleeved several thousand cards to free up shelf space for binders and other card related items. I have the BCW Monster Storage boxes - 3200 ct. and the sleeves, regular or for thick cards, fit nicely vertically. I have noticed that trying to place any sleeved card horizontally in any 200-800 ct box is either a tight squeeze or the cards end up at an angle so I only store sleeves vertically in my monster boxes. There are 200 ct boxes made specifically for toploaders that I keep my best cards in. They would also work for sleeves. I really only use my horizontal storage boxes for shipping and temp storage of new cards while they wait for a permanent spot in a box or binder.

This could be the difference right there on the thick cards, and also it answers my long confusion as to why there are regular 3200 count boxes with the full lid and then the 3200 count monster boxes with the half lid.  The monster boxes are slightly wider in the rows.

Yeah some boxes are made specifically to fit cards with penny sleeves/toploaders.  It looks like you might need to buy some new boxes

Here are links to what I bought on Amazon:

BCW Monster Box:

https://www.amazon.com/BCW-Monster-Storage-Holds-trading/dp/B000K41E6K?pd_rd_w=YAtN1&pf_rd_p=e19298cc-53cc-437e-954a-a37f25383b20&pf_rd_r=265Z02R73KA4JQRHY57A&pd_rd_r=8ee4c951-72a1-4d93-967a-ab7f021b68ec&pd_rd_wg=ZmIbu&pd_rd_i=B000K41E6K&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_d_rp_33_t

Toploader Box (I seem to have bought the last 2, but another seller may have them): 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JKTN6PD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Besides the specialty boxes I got for graded and one touch cards, the common box that fits sleeved or top-loaded (but not card saver) cards is a 3 row box. I use the 3 row box to store the cards I have in my trade list, as they are already sleeved and loaded.