Abstract: A novel packaging system for use in packaging and distributing medicines, comprising a portable means supporting a plurality of packages in vertical, depending position, these packages having a flimsy, non self-supporting, sheet forming a lower, compartmentalized, medicine-holding means and also having, integrally connected to the package, an upstanding, upper, label of relatively rigid, self-supporting cardboard, which includes downwardly facing bearing surfaces formed by the laterally projecting bottom edges of the label for cooperation with, and to facilitate suspension on, the aforesaid portable apparatus.