I went to Baton Rouge on Friday Nov 4, 2011 to get fingerprinted and turn in my packet. Received my permit in the mail yesterday Dec 3. It was issued on Nov 29th. Door to door exactly 4 weeks. Pretty pleased with that!
Went to lsp headquaters on dec 1 turned in all my paperwork and got mine back yesterday "dec17". I couldn't believe it came that quick, I figured the holidays would delay it.
mail off's seem to take a bit longer than going to the Police HQ. Lately I've heard around a month for drop off and two for mail in. I was one of the lucky three weekers. Good luck!
I got my permit package back in 4 days saying I needed 2!!! The packet I got during permit class said 1 copy. Someone put up a URL for the packet information and the last line of page 9 says 2. See my post on this very forum. Don't know when this started.