Spouse Outside Canada - Processing

I was just poking around on the forums at immigration.ca , and found a thread (discussion) where people were posting their timelines for Outside Canada applications from the USA: http://www.immigration.ca/discussion/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19254
and found some very interesting things. According to many of the people there, the Sponsorship part of their applications is being processed in a month or sometimes even less, which is a week or two less than the timeline posted on CIC's website. But much more amazing, the Immigrant part that goes to Buffalo, New York is often getting processed in a month or so as well! CIC's website timeline says 30% are processed in 3 months, 50% in 6 months, 70% in 9 months, and 80% in 13 months. Based on that, one might figure on waiting 6 months for the Immigrant part to be approved. It would be so lovely if that's not the case! Another interesting thing is that the Buffalo office has apparently been offloading some applications for processing at other offices throughout the country, apparently for the purpose of keeping processing times down. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.