Originally posted by Mharr:

This ties into similar suggestions to allow rock and wood piles to act as containers for a limited subset of items. It would be a generally useful feature for the game engine.

It is a feature already. Again, the christmas gifts were containers, so we know they can do it. Its just a matter of where to spend the dev time. On a scale of 1-10, this is probably a 0. however on the effort level, its probably a 0 there too -- possibly as simple as changing 'iscontainer' to true and 'num_slots' to 20 or whatever.