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> SARS-cov-2 survives days on cardboard.

It doesn't.

>>soperj+(OP)
Yes, it does. In low humidity, room temperature settings, the virus can last for days on a surface.

>>soperj+(OP)
From https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronaviru...

> The scientists found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was detectable in aerosols for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel.

24 hours is within the time-frame of same-day deliveries at the least. I think OP's point still stands; it's a disease vector.

>>y-c-o-+ob
24 hours isn't days.

>>y-c-o-+ob
'Detectable' isn't the same as 'infectious,' though. There is zero evidence of actual transmission from mail and packaging materials.

>>Camper+Uv
If transmission via packaging were happening, what evidence would you expect us to have at this point, and why?

(Absence of evidence can be evidence of absence, but only in proportion to how easy the evidence would be to find if it existed, and how hard we've looked.)