Yeah, that’s a crap way of delivering something…but anything I’ve shipped would have survived it. My personal standard for shipping anything is “can it be punted across the front lawn?” If I feel confident I can punt the box a good 20-40 feet and not worry it will be damaged then it is sufficiently packaged for the vast majority of shippers that it will encounter. Sure that means a bit bigger box, more padding, and so on, but it also means it gets there in one piece.
My wife ordered 10 Fiestaware disc pitchers from a seller on Ebay probably a decade ago. Oh there was a large box delivered, crumpled corners and all. I rocked the box before I even tried to pick it up, nothing but the sound of shattered ceramics. I opened it to find all 10 destroyed. No bubble wrap, foam, air bags, only some crumpled newspaper for items weighting about 4-5 lbs each. Your single walled box packaged with a few sheets of newspaper wouldn’t even have survived packing the pitchers for storage without one getting damaged. I hate shippers just as much as I hate the delivery service sometimes.
