Pallet skirt

A blank for forming a pallet skirt, where the skirt is to be configured to cover side portions of a pallet and to provide access for mechanical lifting of the pallet via forks of a pallet lifting device when the skirt is disposed about the pallet, said blank comprising:

• an elongated sheet of skirt material,
• said sheet presenting opposite top and bottom margins,
• said sheet including first and second side wall panels, with the side wall panels being disposed laterally adjacent one another and having a first fold line disposed therebetween, and with each of the side wall panels extending substantially continuously between the top and bottom margins,
• said sheet further including a connection flap disposed laterally adjacent one of the side wall panels and having a second fold line disposed therebetween, with the connection flap being configured to connect with another side wall panel of either the same sheet or another sheet,
• at least one of the side wall panels including a pair of spaced apart recess-defining margins being defined therein to selectively present a recess margin that is spaced from a lowermost part of the bottom margin.