When I was saying that in my post I was not even sure the way the cic was distributing files between the local offices. In the beginning I was positive that my file would go to Whitby as there used to be the local office in that town, but then while reading posts on this forum I found out that the Whitby office did not exist any longer and the local office for people with my postal code was set as the Scarborough office. So I started reading about Scarborough and their timelines. And then I read that as the Scarborough office was overloaded with applications the cic started sending the new applications to the Mississauga office, at the same time Scarborough was mainly dealing with possible RQ cases.
A for the driving distance - we don't live in Scarborough, we live close to Whitby.