It all depends on how willing your club rep is to keep making phone calls.
Using normal mail or e-mail allows them to keep putting you on the backburner.
As soon as your get them on the phone for one-on-one communication, it brings your file from the bottom of the pile to the top.
After I took the test at my range, it was pushing two weeks with not hearing anything, so my range guy made the phone call and I had the file e-mailed to him then me right away.