when I was Building COGZilla, I was buying tons of pieces parts off ebay....
I bought a complete Ninja head, it was shipped in a big carboard box, filled with crumpled newspaper.... yeah, that worked .... not. wasn't much left of that box when it arrived...it looked like a basketball, with holes...
then, the pristine set of carbs some braniac shipped in a box, with carbs still containing fuel... but he put them in a plastic bag...... full of foam peanuts.... nice mess that was....