This showed up on my porch like this today

Who ships shocks compressed? Definitely not anyone I've dealt with before. When I worked with race cars all our race shocks showed up individually boxed, heavy cardboard, with packing at each end to prevent rolling/sliding/etc.

That said. I've seen boxes marked glass come in with foot prints on them. Glass stove tops that are 2 feet x 2 feet and there's 3 shoe prints right across the top. And the glass inside is garbage. Boxes that you can't tell used to be square. Etc etc.

I think it's both bad shipping/packing and bad handling by the carrier.