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A TUBULAR OPEN TOP CONTAINER ADAPTED FOR STACKING, COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO PAIRS OF VERTICAL OPPOSED WALL PANELS WITH UPPER AND LOWER MARGINAL EDGES, SAID WALL PANELS HINGEDLY CONNECTED BY VERTICAL SCORE LINES TO FORM CORNERS AND HAVING THE LOWER MARGINAL EDGE DEFINED BY A FLAP SCORE LINE, BOTTOM CLOSURE FLAPS HINGED TO SAID VERTICAL WALL PANELS BY SAID FLAP SCORE LINES, THE WALL PANELS INCLUDING LOWER MARGINAL EDGE PORTIONS, SAID LOWER MARGINAL PORTIONS HAVING FREE SIDE EDGES SPACED LATERALLY INWARDLY FROM THE VERTICAL SCORES AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM THE FLAP SCORE A UNIFORM DISTANCE COMPRISING A MINOR PORTION OF THE VERTICAL HEIGHT OF SAID WALL PANELS, HORIZONTAL STACKING EDGES CONNECTING THE ADJACENT LOWER WALL PORTIONS FREE SIDE EDGES AT EACH CORNER, THE VERTICAL CORNER SCORES EACH TERMINATING AT THE RESPECTIVE STACKING EDGE, THE FREE SIDE EDGES WITH THE STACKING EDGES DEFINING VOIDS IN THE CONTAINER WALLS ADJACENT THE BOTTOM CORNERS THEREOF, THE WALL PANEL LOWER MARGINAL EDGE PORTIONS BEING INWARDLY DEFLECTABLE FROM THE VERTICAL DISPOSITION OF THE REMAINING WALL PORTIONS AND THEREBY ADAPTED TO INSERTION WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE UPPER MARGINAL EDGES OF A LIKE CONTAINER IN VERTICAL STACKING AND THE SAID STACKING EDGES IN ABUTTING RELATION TO THE UPPER MARGINAL EDGES OF A LIKE CONTAINER ADJACENT THE VERTICAL CORNER SCORES THEREOF.