I love this kitchen cart. The packaging was safe, even though there were actual tire tracks on the box when it arrived! Those must have occurred during transport and had nothing to do with the initial packaging. We expected some major damage because of those marks and some dents on the box itself. Therefore, we took pictures before opening it, just in case. But the packaging was so good that the only damage on the piece was a very little chip on the edge of the granite top that, I am sure, will quickly be taken care of.