You know, what would really suck now would be if the part were to turn out to be something silly like a screw or a washer.

Yes. Though I'd be fairly impressed by anyone capable of sending a screw in the post in such a way as to damage it unusably!

The word they keep using is "facia", by which I assume they mean the detachable front panel of the stereo, but I'm prepared to find I'm surprisingly wrong when it actually turns up...