We have some handful of merit source even though there is no amount of merit source that will be enough for meriting quality post on the local board.

It's one thing to even request for a merit source and another for the request to be granted by thymos. Maybe what we should rather be looking out for is means through the current merit source and others that are not merit source but still give out merit will be more focused on meriting the best of the quality post and any other one that's of quality and yet not merited can be reported to merit source for such post to be merited. Lately, the quality of post on the local board have even dropped to a large extent and this can in a way be attributed to the this issue of merit not flowing that well on the local board.

But then, merit source can't give out merit above what they have been allocated. Once they have exhausted the allocation for the week, I guess regardless of the quality of post, they will have to wait till they are fed with more sendables before they can start meriting post again. Just my take.