Rigid, collapsible and nestable container

A rigid collapsible container comprising:

• a. a rectangularly shaped base member comprising a rectangular frame made up of horizontally oriented side channel elements in parallel spaced relationship and horizontally oriented front and rear channel elements in parallel spaced relationship, said base member including a deck structure supported by said channel elements;
• b. a corner post at each of the corners of said rectangular base member, each of said corner posts having a vertical lower section and an upper section, each of said lower sections rigidly joining two of said channel elements and having male nesting means depending therefrom below said base member and female nesting means at the top thereof, said upper section being pivotally affixed at its lower end to said lower section and being swingable between a vertical position and a position overlying said deck structure, said upper section including female nesting means at its upper end;
• c. a pair of side panels each extending between and pivotally associated with a respective pair of said corner post upper sections, and
• d. front and rear panels extending between said side panels and hingedly secured to said front and rear channel elements respectively, said front and rear panels being swingable between a vertical position and a horizontal position overlying said deck structure whereby, said container is nestable with like containers when said corner post upper sections and said front and rear panels are in said vertical positions and when said corner posts upper sections and said front and rear panels are in said positions overlying said deck structure.