The cigarettes, branded with names like Niagara's and Bishop, sell for as little as $39.95 for a 10-pack carton -- much cheaper than those at non-Indian retailers -- and bring in millions of dollars a year to the tribe, which also has a resort casino, five golf courses and a multimedia production house.
In the packing carton were three small begonias plus some petunia seedlings.
On a recent visit, Mr. Walker demonstrated with a bright-green cactus, fresh from a packing carton and replete with a snarl of plastic spikes, that looked in its natural, artificial state like a demonic baseball.
"We've designed a new 12-pack carton that will tighten the case to prevent bottles from hitting each other during transit," said director of operations Mark Fischer.
She has a stack of packing cartons in case she has to move out.
"We have no home," Mr. Mancini said the other day at the firm's temporary quarters on Park Avenue, where packing cartons were doing double duty as conference tables.
By contrast, Updike pieced his archive together himself and delivered the material several times a year, driving down to Cambridge from Beverly Farms, Mass., and carrying in tidily packed cartons.
Also the number of pieces in packed cartons can be counted without opening, which saves the time and labour.
Large cardboard packing cartons, meanwhile, are picked up free at a local hospital after Kimberly-Clark makes its weekly deliveries.
The same has happened with multi-pack cartons of cans, where Amazons logo is on the back, next to the products bar code and nutritional information.
TV footage also documented the arrival of a large moving van, with a flurry of reports about the number of packing cartons to be deployed for the Camerons' departure. .
