Kitty, when you were a new seller, you would have been subjected to the 21 day hold on funds by PayPal, yeah? Did you hold off posting for 21 days until the funds had cleared? This is no different. The funds are there, you just can't have them yet. Think of it as a 3-5 day hold rather than 21 days.

If you hold off posting Tuesday's sales until next Monday, if you have a handling time of 1-2 days, your defects are going to start stacking up and you're going to have some seriously unhappy buyers. They have paid. They want their stuff.