If anyone else finds this useful, here is what I was told on my call to USCIS-CSC this morning:

The contractor who mails/ships the approvals to NVC has been slow and CSC has received enough calls from angry people yelling at them about their approvals not being sent to NVC that Supervisor contacted the contractor and were told the contractor would catch up in about one week. So if you're still waiting like me, there might be some hope that it goes out by the end of this week, beginning of next week.

But all of us CSC people do really know to take a grain of salt with anything CSC tells us. devil.gif And so we continue waiting.......