You Have GOT To Be Kidding Me!!

I came home one day this past week to find that a package I had ordered had arrived in the mail that day.
When I saw the box sitting on the table where my husband had set it, it occurred to me that it wasn't a very big box to hold what I knew to be inside.
That right there scared me a little bit, already.
Then I picked it up and I could hear things knocking together inside.
Fragile things.
Um - not a good sign, right?
It was also dented - a little smashed on one corner.

Seriously, I was getting upset - and I hadn't even opened it yet!

I decided to take pictures of every step as I opened the package - you know, for evidence.
(I am not showing you all of the pictures here.)
I figured I needed to document how they'd been packaged if I was going to have to try and get reimbursed - or whatever.
When I carefully CUT open the top of the box and lifted it open, this is what I saw:

Excuse me! (?#%@&*!!!)
Again - this - (see photo taken by bewildered recipient, below) - NO bubble wrap, no tissue, no wrapping nor protection of ANY kind and two items inside that are nearly 50 years old, and quite fragile.
Like, "they-could-chip-if-you-look-at-them-cross-eyed" kind of fragile.
Seriously, folks have you EVER??

What kind of person packages something like that?
O.M.G.
And this was not even a sturdy box, but a thin "no protection from getting smashed" type of food packaging box.
Remove the items - nothing left inside, see:

Oh, I mean nothing except a couple of little tell-tale paint scrapes on the side there where my fragile, collectible, beautiful items rubbed against the side of the box in transit.
Here's one more shot of that flimsy box - just for effect, you know:

And yet - this is a miracle, there's no other way to explain it - somehow, they made it from Pennsylvania all the way to California without getting smashed to smithereens.
Here's the proof:

And here:

 They are in remarkably good condition, despite the poor packaging.
I absolutely could not believe my eyes.

One more look at their crowded quarters where they resided, side by side, for their journey across our great nation:

Boy, oh boy - am I lucky or what??
"Lucky, indeed", she said, in the understatement of the century.
And I am very, VERY happy that they made it here safely.
Yes, I surely am.
But not too happy with the person who mailed them.