Hi Whynot,
As of today, there's no official clarification about when the FSWP will end accepting applications by mail package.
But there seems to be a lot of indications that it will end by the end of 2014. Especially when you take CIC actions of the past years into consideration, they can issue an ACT to terminate or start anything at any time. Further more, EE has been clearly announced to start on 1st January 2015, what's the point of keeping the current immigration running in parallel(sudden drop of immigrants is not their main concern, if they feel EE is not efficient to take in immigrants, they can issue a new ACT to start xyz program else at that time.).
Has Australia kept their previous immigration running simultaneously with their EOI? . EE is just a copycat of Australia's EOI, my sense is that it will stop by this year end.
That's my take regarding current FSWP
BR.