Well the "how to package" really wasn't my 
question.  As I've pointed out, I've had cels 
come to me in not much more than a manila file 
folder inside an envelope and make it just fine.  
There may not be a special place for these 
packages, but our fine postal employees do expend 
a great deal of time and effort into making sure 
anything fragile is so marked.  At least they do 
here. I always assumed they did it for a reason.

I've sent and received a lot of cels now, and 
there's no reason at all that one should not have 
made the trip just fine.  They really had to have 
worked hard at this one to bend it. I won't argue 
the point any more, being the one who put it 
together.  In my first post, if anyone cares to 
re-read it, I was simply expressing my dismay at 
the fact that the ghouls managed to get this one 
in spite of everything.

Or, to quote the famous  bumper sticker, $hit 
happens.  It's just extremely regrettable that it 
happened in an otherwise smooth and pleasant 
transaction.