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The container is first switched for an identical one which contains no money, and a situation is engineered giving the mark the opportunity to escape, with the money, from a perceived threat (e.g., local police or rowdies). If the mark does so, he is fleeing from his own money, which the con artist will have kept or handed off to an accomplice.
Bulk boxes are often made of corrugated fiberboard, either doublewall or triplewall.Many corrugated bulk boxes have covers. [2] The main body of some is similar to a half slotted container with flaps on the bottom; others have a separate base (similar to the cover) and a sleeve for side walls.
Packet containing a dishwasher tablet. A packet or sachet is a small bag or pouch, made from paper, foil, plastic film or another type of packing material, often used to contain single-use quantities of foods or consumer goods such as ketchup or shampoo. Packets are commonly opened by making a small rip or tear in part of the package, and then ...
Several packages left unattended on a porch, a typical target for package thieves. Package theft or cargo theft is the theft of a package or parcel. It can occur anywhere in the distribution channel.
Bronze wine container from the 9th century BC The first packages used the natural materials available at the time: baskets of reeds, wineskins ( bota bags ), wooden boxes , pottery vases , ceramic amphorae , wooden barrels , woven bags, etc. Processed materials were used to form packages as they were developed: first glass and bronze vessels.
A pack or packet of cigarettes (also informally called fag packet in British slang; as in the idiom "back of a fag packet" or "fag-packet calculation") is a rectangular container, mostly of paperboard, which contains cigarettes. The pack is designed with a flavor-protective foil, paper or plastic, and sealed through a transparent airtight ...
In 2006, Consumer Reports magazine recognized the wrap rage phenomenon when it created the Oyster Awards for the products with the hardest-to-open packaging. [3] [7] A story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about wrap rage [8] was featured on The Colbert Report when host Stephen Colbert tried to use a knife to remove a new calculator from its plastic packaging, to no avail.
A point-of-sale display assembled by a contract packager. There can be a variety of reasons for using contract packaging. [1] [2]A contract packager may have specialized equipment and expertise needed for a particular packaging operation.