My husband let me know that I had a box at the front door and added that it looked like it had been ran over by a truck.  I though “We’ll, that’s just great.”    You can see the pics that I’ve uploaded.  We opened the outer box with our fingers crossed and the inner box looked bad, too.  
We lucked out, however, because the lamp did not appear to be damaged.  The threads to screw the lamp post together were a little frustrating, but we got it done.  In the end, the lamp looked like I had envisioned and it works well in the reading/relaxing corner of my sunroom.