There's no one way to carry coins in real life: They can be stuffed in a pocket, rolled into paper cylinders, put in a wallet, placed in a bag, kept in a piggy bank, et cetera.
Why would there be one way to store UPB's?
However, their fundamental purpose is for making things, so they're not going to be stored in a way that could damage them or make them inconvenient for that purpose (so no pressing into cubes or coins, they'll stay as loose grains of rice until they're used).