Lamp was packaged well and arrived with no damage.  One thing we were surprised about was that the lamp shade comes rolled up and you unroll it and affix it to two rings.  This was very easy to do.  The only issue we had was that we had a terrible time trying to get the lamp to be level.  When you finally got it level if you just touched it, it would go off level again.  Finally husband got some small magnets to affix which seemed to do the trick.    Overall, love the look of the lamp.