Abstract: A package comprising a length of tubular packaging material and an item disposed in the material between first and second clips or staples clinched around bunched portions of the material. The material extends outwardly beyond the second staple, the extension being bunched and fastened by a third staple adjacent its outer end. Strapping extends along the material and is caught by the first, second and third staples. The material and the strapping between the second and third staples provides a handle at one end of the package.

Abstract: A box containing a roll of material such as a rope of tubular plastic netting, the roll having a passage extending through it axially. Each end of the box has a triangular aperture through it. When the roll rests on a first side of the box the apertures line up with the passage through the roll. In this position an arbor is inserted through the passage and the apertures. To dispense the material the box is turned over so that a second side, the side opposite the first side, is on the bottom. The arbor now rests on arbor-supporting edge portions of each aperture. The distance between each arbor-supporting edge portion and the second side is greater than the radius of the roll, so the roll is suspended above the second side of the box by means of the arbor. The roll then rotates freely in the box, permitting material to be unwound.