diff --git a/telethon/network/mtprotosender.py b/telethon/network/mtprotosender.py
index e6a7ba9e..d15216c1 100644
--- a/telethon/network/mtprotosender.py
+++ b/telethon/network/mtprotosender.py
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ class MTProtoSender:
         # {id: Message} to set their Future result upon arrival.
         self._pending_messages = {}
 
+        # Containers are accepted or rejected as a whole when any of
+        # its inner requests are acknowledged. For this purpose we save
+        # {msg_id: container}.
+        self._pending_containers = []
+
         # We need to acknowledge every response from Telegram
         self._pending_ack = set()
 
@@ -145,6 +150,9 @@ class MTProtoSender:
         Since the receiving part is "built in" the future, it's
         impossible to await receive a result that was never sent.
         """
+        # TODO Perhaps this method should be synchronous and just return
+        # a `Future` that you need to further ``await`` instead of the
+        # currently double ``await (await send())``?
         message = TLMessage(self.session, request)
         self._pending_messages[message.msg_id] = message
         await self._send_queue.put(message)
@@ -160,9 +168,20 @@ class MTProtoSender:
         Besides `connect`, only this method ever sends data.
         """
         while self._user_connected:
-            # TODO If there's more than one item, send them all at once
-            body = helpers.pack_message(
-                self.session, await self._send_queue.get())
+            messages = [await self._send_queue.get()]
+            while not self._send_queue.empty():
+                messages.append(self._send_queue.get_nowait())
+
+            # TODO if _send_queue has a container and we wrap it inside
+            # another then that will not work.
+            if len(messages) == 1:
+                message = messages[0]
+            else:
+                message = TLMessage(self.session, MessageContainer(messages))
+                self._pending_messages[message.msg_id] = message
+                self._pending_containers.append(message)
+
+            body = helpers.pack_message(self.session, message)
 
             # TODO Handle exceptions
             async with self._send_lock:
@@ -357,6 +376,23 @@ class MTProtoSender:
         # TODO https://goo.gl/LMyN7A
         self.session.salt = reader.tgread_object().server_salt
 
+    def _clean_containers(self, msg_ids):
+        """
+        Helper method to clean containers from the pending messages
+        once a wrapped msg_id of them has been acknowledged.
+
+        This is the only way we can resend TLMessage(MessageContainer)
+        on bad notifications and also mark them as received once any
+        of their inner TLMessage is acknowledged.
+        """
+        for i in reversed(range(len(self._pending_containers))):
+            message = self._pending_containers[i]
+            for msg in message.request.messages:
+                if msg.msg_id in msg_ids:
+                    del self._pending_containers[i]
+                    del self._pending_messages[message.msg_id]
+                    break
+
     async def _handle_ack(self, msg_id, seq, reader):
         """
         Handles a server acknowledge about our messages. Normally
@@ -366,8 +402,17 @@ class MTProtoSender:
 
         Telegram doesn't seem to send its result so we need to confirm
         it manually. No other request is known to have this behaviour.
+
+        Since the ID of sent messages consisting of a container is
+        never returned (unless on a bad notification), this method
+        also removes containers messages when any of their inner
+        messages are acknowledged.
         """
-        for msg_id in reader.tgread_object().msg_ids:
+        ack = reader.tgread_object()
+        if self._pending_containers:
+            self._clean_containers(ack.msg_ids)
+
+        for msg_id in ack.msg_ids:
             msg = self._pending_messages.get(msg_id, None)
             if msg and isinstance(msg.request, LogOutRequest):
                 del self._pending_messages[msg_id]