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/rant on
Be happy the CRT survived. My FADA via UPS (another post) had the stem of the on/off/volume control rammed so hard it actually split the pot body in half where it's soldered on the chassis.
I've had 5 TVs mailed in about 5 years. The Fada was a complete loss, a Crosley had the 1/16th plate steel chassis-bend just like you describe, an Admiral had the deflection plates of an otherwise good 7JP4 rattled loose (CRT is destroyed). A Capehart had a significant hard dent put in the otherwise pristine cabinet. Only one GE arrived in the same condition it was sent. Pretty poor odds.
I recently had two large console TVs shipped from southern California by North American Van Lines. I knew someone who was moving from there to my area and tagged them along. Both (very heavy) TV sets arrived perfectly intact, exactly as sent. So it CAN be done. And of course, all the sets I loaded onto my own pickup truck bed arrived perfectly intact. I just think the mail/UPS/Fedex/etc don't give a crap. They work on a pretty cheap margin and a lot of volume and throw stuff to get it done quickly. Just too rough for vintage TV sets. Which part of "Fragile", "Glass", and "Do Not Drop" don't they understand?
/rant off
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