Abstract: A packaging arrangement for electric light bulbs wherein a plurality of bulbs are secured to a platform which is in turn slid into a protective carton for shipment or storage. The platform is formed from an integral blank and is provided with a plurality of bulb retaining sockets for mounting the bulbs on the platform. Each of the sockets is defined by a pair of parallel cuts in the blank connected at their ends by transverse score lines and bisected by a transverse cut extending beyond each of the parallel cuts. The resulting arrangement provides yieldable side flaps for the socket which are deflected by the bulb as it is inserted into the socket to firmly seat the bulb on the platform and a pair of opposing end flaps adapted to releasably secure the bulb within the socket.