Hinged lid package for smoking and/or tobacco related articles, blank and method therefor

A hinged lid package for elongate articles, in particular smoking articles and/or tobacco related articles, the package comprising:

• a body having a rear wall a bottom wall and two side walls;
• a first hinge having a first width and a second hinge inside the rear wall of the body, the second hinge parallel to the first hinge, the width of the rear wall is larger than a width of the first hinge, the width of the rear wall is larger than the width of the first hinge;
• a lid hinged to the body by the first hinge, the lid and the body being coupled such that the body can rest on the lid in an open end position of the lid and the lid remains open, a front wall of the lid abuts on the rear wall of the package when the lid is in the open end position, the lid supports the open package in the open end position from a rear side of the package in an appealing position in which the elongate articles are inclined with respect to a flat surface such that ends of the elongate articles which are accessible are more elevated than opposite ends of the elongate articles inside the package;
• two cuts in the rear wall running from the first hinge to the second hinge so as to create a connecting flap in the rear wall which couples the first hinge and the second hinge, the cuts having a distance from the side walls of the package such that a width of the connecting flap is smaller than a width of the rear wall of the package, the two cuts follow the first hinge outwardly in opposite directions and towards the side walls of the package, such that the hinge is partially cut, a length of the connecting flap is substantially equal to a length of the lower edges of the side walls of the lid.