Could you use a little advice on recently delivered speakers..

For future reference - ask a UPS store to pack for you if you’re sending a tinned fruitcake to grandma. DON’T have them pack expensive, heavy, fragile audio gear. It’s asking for trouble. There will at least be some part dinged / broken, guaranteed. Bubble wrap is garbage. You need good quality foam for amps and speakers. UPS will not cover a claim (and I don't blame them) because they’re not the (idiot) store that packed this improperly. 

But it sounds like you got somewhat lucky here - they’re useable / easily fixable as is, so I’d keep them. Drivers and cabinets are the important bits. But it was still a poor job by the seller, and in the future you should ask if they have FACTORY packing. Otherwise you’re depending wholly on random parties for "good sense and care" which is so often lacking. 

You got lucky. I recalled an experience with the UPS store in another thread recently. To recap, I had the UPS store package and ship a pair of PBN Montana tower speakers. They arrived at the destination completely destroyed. They were single boxed with only foam packing peanuts in the box. Never again.

I agree with the above. You can fix this yourself. But make sure nothing else is amiss when you take the driver out. With a lick like that, the xover or even the drivers could have been damaged.

NO NO NO...File a Not As Advertised grievance with Ebay..Yes you can fix it yourself BUT this is something that should have been described in the original sales add..If you try to fix it yourself & something else goes wrong you will be SOOL..DO NOT accept this without a discount to the original price paid!

UPS cannot be trusted to pack audio gear. Trust me from experience. You DID get lucky as many have mentioned. Think about this for a moment and attach a risk value to each statement. You bought older speakers. You bought them on Ebay. The price was cheap(er). The speakers were shipped to you. They were left to UPS to package (probably a young kid who does not know how to package audio and was sick on the day UPS was training employees how to package audio electronics (haha). Too many risks in a row and yes it was a small miracle they are in the condition you found them in.

@sifter 

Yes, carefully remove the woofer and you should have tight access to the binding post/wire connection.  My guess is you just need to tighten a nut on that post. DON"T "just leave it".  it is a bad connection that needs attention.