No packing material inside the box. The seller put the items in a simple box and sent it. Not even some rolled up newspaper. It was a Craigslist buy so the buyer wasn't intending to pack and ship it. At first they thought some kook from California was calling them.
I used to work for FedEx Ground and we destroyed plenty of packages. I can still hear in my mind the squeak of cardboard boxes being squeezed together in a big belt jam, followed soon by the geyser of packing peanuts and merchandise on the warehouse floor. I didn't call them "Package Handlers", the official title. Instead I called them "Package Smashers".
It's repairable. Just kind of a bummer to see it damaged.
