For what it's worth, I sent a few bips from one wallet of mine to another to test and received them ok. I sent them using the CLI wallet with a mixin value of 2 (anything higher than 2 doesn't seem to work yet, probably because of the low volume of transactions).
Exactly. When more people are transacting you can use a higer rate. Early on one day I was testing with six people transacting at once and I was able to use a mixin of 5 once.
PM me a BipCoin address, I'll send you some squittens, and you can let me know when you get it. Same to anyone else reading for, let say, the next 4 hours.