Seems as though FedEx got there hands on a Blendtec Blender and decided to do their own “Will It Blend?” test on my order from Adafruit Industries.
Fortunately, Adafruit is sending out a replacement overnight (at no cost to me), which is really above and beyond considering that this was a FedEx FAIL and I was a bit of an ass to Adafruit about the issue initially blaming them rather than FedEx.
It's obvious that FedEx put the package in a plastic bag to hide the damage.
What FedEx didn't want me to see (the reason it was wrapped it in a plastic bag).
Glad to hear that Adafruit took care of this! It looks like they actually switched to UPS now. haha
They probably thought you were a terrorist, and decided to foil your evil plans to flash interesting messages at people.
No kidding – their “Automatic Terrorist Package Detection Machines” need a little work. they freak out at the sign of any circuit board and automatically destroy the package.