Combining any single-stack-or-less quantity of an item with a single Phantom Membrane (and maybe a single dye) via a shapeless recipe wraps it up into a Phantom Parcel, an unstackable special item. Holding the Use button while it's in one of your hands unwraps it, re-exposing the item inside and likely destroying the wrapping.
In Survival and custom Adventure maps it's a way to prevent players simply grabbing the most interesting items from a Chest in a risky location, by obscuring some of them. Some Villager types (Wandering Traders/Clerics?) may also have a rare randomised Phantom Parcel trade, or want to buy parcels made by the player; you might get ripped off sometimes, but that's part of the fun!
The primary purpose is to enhance Survival Multiplayer, though. Naming Phantom Parcels in an Anvil allows them to be sent as a sort of magical mail service via Ender Chests!
If a player with the Phantom Parcel's name has ever logged onto the server before (protecting against typoes) and there is a free inventory space in the reciever's Ender Chest, the item will be transferred from the sender's one to the reciever's.
They can be used as surprise gifts players can prepare for their friends on birthdays and gift-giving holidays, as well as part of day-to-day trade. They'd also have the name of the person who wrapped it (like signed Written Books).
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