Package combinations sold together as a kit for blood collection and sampling for medical purposes comprised of blood collection needles, blood sampling tubes and blood sampling tube caps, plastic bags specially adapted for specimen transport, plastic containers specially adapted for storing specimens, thermoform plastic trays, evacuated glass and plastic blood collection tubes, plastic and fiberboard mailing tubes and corrugated fiberboard cartons and chipboard cartons specially adapted for mailing of blood collection samples, expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam and sheets comprised of plastic packaging or wrapping material which contains encapsulated air cells specially adapted for packaging and insulating blood collection samples, and also comprising microscope glass slides, glass bottles, non-woven fiber absorbent pads, swabs for medical use, gauze pads, and adhesive bandages