tell application "Finder"
	try
		set selectedItems to selection
		set selectedItem to item 1 of selectedItems as alias
		open folder ((selectedItem as string) & "Contents:")
	on error
		display dialog "You must select a package before running this script."
	end try
end tell

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Daniel Jalkut
http://www.red-sweater.com/

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As you said, your AppleScript works great for Applications, but what about things like iWeb documents or Pages documents? Your AppleScript doesn't help if I want to see their contents.

Not to be facetious or anything, but I quite like how it chose from my path button instead of my context action button just because my toolbar, like so many others, are not identical to the default configuration. ;) I do see that care has been taken to work around it when watching the source (in Contents/document.wflow of the downloadable Automator workflow), but it will need some particular nudging to get around my weird configuration, apparently.

I did test the script with a variety of toolbar configurations, and I got it to work no matter what the configuration for my machine.

Here's what I discovered when writing the workflow:
The GUI Scripting command telling it which "group" was affected by three items being on the toolbar: the Spotlight Search field, the Path Button, and the Action Button.

If, of those three, the Action Button was the only one present, then it needed to be "group 1"
If the Action Button and one of the other elements were present, it needed to be "group 2"
If all three elements were present, it needed to be "group 3"

Originally I was going to have users configure the script themselves by changing "group x" to match the above configuration, but I figured if I started trying with 3, I could work my way down and not run into conflict with the Path Button. Apparently I was wrong.

How is your toolbar configured, so I can test it out on my computer?

[back/forward], [view picker], [path popup], [action menu].

What's wrong with right mouse button or contextual menu to "Show Package Contents"? That has to be faster than running a script.

tell tool bar 1
	repeat with i from 1 to count of groups
		if help of group i begins with "Action" then
			set groupIndex to i
		end if
	end repeat
	try
		click menu button 1 of group groupIndex
	on error
		tell application "Finder" to display dialog "The action button needs to be on the toolboar"
		return "No Action"
	end try
end tell

I love this site. I wanted to find this exact thing just now and this hint was the first Google hit. I decided to put the AppleScript from the first comment into a QuicKeys macro and assign my keystroke to that: works like a charm. Also, for curiosity, I tried adding the keystroke to my Finder .plist in the usual way. The result is that the keystroke shows up in the Action menu (the little gear), but not in the contextual menu (right-click), and it doesn't work. But it serves as a reminder of the keystroke I assigned in QuicKeys!