Hello jOe
I know you have had some really nicer, and much more expensive guns than mine,a lovely old Scott, & was it a Purdey? but did you just really....

"ship it in a one piece cheap plastic Walmart gun case taped shut then bubble wrapped inside a larger cardboard box
You ship a gun in two pieces inside the same container you could be asking for trouble."

That seems a little cheap even for a gun like mine...now no harm meant, mate, really.
But I'm going for oVerbUilt
cheers
franc