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My experience :

NCS or Postal : Postal
Date of submission or posting : Dec 19th 2007.
CRITERIA - 5 yr stay (4 + 1 yr ILR) : 4 years on WP + 1 yr ILR
Date of debit of debit/credit card : Dec 28th 2006.
Date of receipt of acknowledgement : Jan 14th 2007
Date of receipt of approval : March 4th 2007.

Seems to me postal application takes long to process.