Hallelujah! I feel much less nervous now.
I think the waiting times are interesting. Something must have changed in the last few months, because I sent my application out just before Xmas (on the 22nd or 23rd, as I recall) and they took the money out of my account the next week. My stamp says it was issued on the 2nd of February, and the mailman just brought it to me (Feburary 6th--a Saturday, no less!). So that was just about 6 weeks.
Amazing.