After listening to the packaging issues from many on this Yahoo Group, and from my own experience, I believe the weak link is at the corners. My parcel also arrived with one on the corners of the box split wide open, and if it weren't for the Styrofoam sheet, the BITX40 would have arrived damaged.?if the sides of the box were re-enforced a little, it may solve the packaging/shipping issues. My suggestion would be to add a boxboard(cardboard) strip around the inside parameter of the box. This should prevent the box from collapsing and the corners from splitting.