Plastic arrived in today's mail. I am thinking they don't mean literally when they change the status to mailed. I live about four hours from them and it took five days if I count today for it to arrive.
The entire process did not take nearly as long as I thought it would. Paper arrived in Austin on the 19th of February and my plastic is in my hands on the 15th of March. Under thirty days? No complaints from me.

to the folks in the CHL department. They have really improved the entire process since 2008 when I waited almost four months!
Oh yeah... One complaint. After reading a post on another forum concerning a picture mix up, I was pretty disappointed that they gave me one with the picture of a fat balding guy on it.