I do the EFT so I wouldn't know, if your a US resident or your country is supported I suggestion you use EFT to avoid these problems.
I am suprised they can not do Eft all over the world. You can buy with a credit card any place so why does it cost so much for bank transfer or EFT.
Even with EFT, my payment is always delayed. It's never on a set day of the month. Its always random. Honestly, its kind of annoying sometimes too.
Yea they got us all by the balls. But to think if everyone boycotted the adsense how it would bring google.com down to their knees. After all they make revenue from selling information.
I think it is normal for some delayed of cheque it will surely come you just need to wait and if it won't come then that's the time you need to call or write google about it.