Shipping and dispensing container for drinking straws

Apparatus for storing and dispensing drinking straws, including a single sheet of cardboard comprising:

• a pair of opposite side walls, a front wall with opposite sides and a top and a bottom, and a rear wall with opposite sides and a top and a bottom, each side wall foldably joining at least a portion of one side of said wall front wall to one side of said rear wall, the walls being unfoldable to form a rectangular shape as seen in cross-section;
• a bottom wall foldably joined to the bottom of the rear wall, and which can lie under said rectangular shape formed by said walls;
• a flexible inclined wall which is integral with at least a portion of the rear wall and which can extend from the top of said rear wall and at a downward incline to the bottom wall at a location near the bottom of the front wall;
• a top wall which can extend across the top of said rectangular shape formed by said walls;
• a pair of bottom flaps extending from the bottom of each side wall and holding the bottom wall;
• the bottom of said front wall lying a distance above the bottom wall about equal to the diameter of said straws, a bottom portion of said front wall being unjoined to said side walls and being bendable, whereby to permit rearward deflection of the bottom of the front wall to dispense a straw.