Abstract: A corrugated cardboard pallet usable either by itself or as the base member of a palletized container. The pallet includes a tray having side walls and a bottom wall; a plurality of blocks positioned within the tray proximate the side walls at spaced locations about the periphery of the side wall and each having a bottom face position on the bottom wall of the tray and an upper face lying in a common plane with the upper faces of other blocks; and a panel positioned within the side walls on top of the blocks. A plurality of flaps are provided in the side walls of the tray and the flaps, following placement of the panel within the side walls over the blocks, are folded upwardly and inwardly out of the side walls between adjacent blocks against the underface of the panel and secured to the underface of the panel.

Abstract: A pallet sleeve 18 for a pallet assembly 10 has a pair of laterally spaced upper slots 36 and a pair of laterally spaced lower slots 34 that are vertically aligned with the upper slots 36. A cord 64 extends through the slots 36 and 34 and has handles 68 and 72 secured to its distal ends 66,70. The sleeve is made from corrugated cardboard with the corrugations running with the vertical slots such that the handles can be pulled to rip the cord 64 through the cardboard from the interior side to the exterior side to remove a panel 44c and create an opening 80 in the side of the pallet sleeve.