Well, this hardly rates as a post but oh well. Just a quick update to say that the payment I’d made to my Payoneer account has finally shown up. It did so some time on the evening of Friday the 12th (at midnight EST, so it was, at least, a predictable time).
The lesson here is that expect topping up your account to take ~48hours as a safety margin, it’s not an instant thing.
Still waiting on the card; they given an ETA of around the end of the month. So the waiting continues…