Pastry shipping container

A container system for shipping pastries, especially suited for shipping cupcakes, comprising:

• an outer box, said box including a bottom, one or more vertically oriented side walls and a detachable outer lid, and including
• a pastry-receiving divider tray snugly insertable into said box which, upon insertion, rests adjacent the bottom thereof, said tray having a predetermined plurality of spaced-apart apertures therein arranged in grid-like array, each aperture sized so as to snugly receive one of said pastries inserted thereinto, and
• a plurality of posts, the number of posts coinciding with the number of pastries to be contained, each of said posts being vertically insertable into one of said pastries, and each pastry having a single post inserted therein prior to shipping, and including
• an inner retaining lid enclosing said pastries, said inner lid being sized to extend over said pastries and extend around the top periphery of said side walls, and sealingly and hermetically closing the periphery of said side walls thereat by a peripheral flange extending therearound, the inner lid having, integrally fabricated therein, a plurality of outwardly oriented frustum-shaped protrusions, the number of protrusions corresponding to the number of pastries, said protrusions being formed in an array which places each of said protrusions, upon insertion of said tray and placement of said inner lid upon said side walls, in concentric registry with a respective one of said apertures in said tray, each protrusion sized to receive the distal end of a respective one of said posts,
• wherein the length of each of said posts is sized to correspond to the distance from the bottom of said box to the apex of each said frustum-shaped protrusion receiving each post inserted into each pastry upon closure of said box and inner lid,
• whereby, upon insertion of said divider tray into said box, placement of said pastries into said divider tray, insertion of the proximal ends of said posts into said pastries, one post into each pastry, closure of said inner lid enclosing said pastries in said box, and closure of said outer detachable lid thereover, said container system is formed.