Later in the season Topps did not ship everywhere. There is a hobby legend based on fact that the St. Louis area did not get the 6th series in 1967 but got tons of the high numbers.
Perhaps not enough people in Detroit would order the higher series and thus they were not sent Detroit. And yes, there were regional issues such as that all during the 1960's-70's.
The brutally difficult 1972 3rd series football cards were released in Dallas and that makes sense as DFW is a football hotbed. Not many other places received those cards.
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