A person received AOR today whose application was del. on 9th October. so it is still that those who have submitted in second week of October are getting AOR now. so wait for 10 weeks which is average time. My application reached on 22 nd Dec. so lets expect something in Feb End or March 1st week. till then relax!
I dont think that it matters a lot if you mail it or deliver it personally. They will take their time to issue the letter of acknowledgement, they dont issue it when you submit your application, they issue it when they open it up and assess how complete it is.
People are saying 8-10 weeks is the average, and then again you have the fact that OINP will not process applications in December/January. I dont know, but I am not holding my breaths, to be honest.
submitted my application package on December 24th and from what i read just here on this site: seems they have sent PTs to more than the 2500 quota, also processing seems to take more than the 90 days stated specially for FSW category. I dont think the process is shorter for the inlands in this nomination program, i mean no evidence to back this fact up, plus again it depends on the case..processing the papers of an applicant with a family is not the same as a single applicant for instance..one more thing, where did they state that there would be no processing in January for Human capital stream??