A minor irritation

My medication might go on, but the brands and the packaging come and go.

The packaging of more than one of the pills that I take regularly has changed for the worse recently, in that once open you cannot shut them again.

Instead of one long flap, the fly of which tucks into the other side, held in place by the two short flaps, we have two long flaps, with one stuck on top of the other when you take delivery. No fly. So once open, the boxes stay open. Which as I say in the title to this post, is a minor irritation. I dare say BH will get around to suggesting rubber bands.

It is possible that the change is about making the packaging more tamper proof. Against that, in the one long flap days of old, the pharmacist used to stick a sticker with name and number across the flap, which one had to cut to get in. Also reasonably tamper proof. Perhaps the robots which do all the work in Lloyd's state of the art distribution facility in Ruislip can't do folded stickers across the end, being limited to flat stickers on one of the sides. On which see reference 1.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/01/trolley-368.html.