So shout to the USPS. on my porch damn every day. Thank You

[irisblue]

[Lindsay]

1. I have to go to the post office

to get my mail (long story about main post office in a rural county and living too close to the PO for delivery), but yay for them being there, as I have some mail-order meds I depend on.

Republican beliefs to the contrary notwithstanding, they are a necessity of life.

[NurseJackie]

2. Can the virus survive on paper? Is it possible that mail pieces could be contaminated?

[DURHAM D]

3. I clean mine.

Have a cleaning station on the front porch just for the mail. Stopped cleaning my newspaper - I just throw it away.

Eta: Our mail man does not have hand sanitizer. He just has some spray that was issued by the USPS. His comment the other day: "Leave it to the post office to come up with this".
He has no idea what it is.

[NurseJackie]

4. My husband is wearing gloves...

... and he'll wait for several days worth of mail before using one pair of gloves on a large stack of mail. He opens the mail outside... tosses the catalogs and junk and pennysaver stuff. Opens the rest and leaves the envelopes in the trash.

Is there a better way to clean the mail?

Are you just being cautious or do you know for a fact that mail can be contaminated?

[DURHAM D]

5. I added notes to my first post above.

I just assume everything might have cooties.

[NurseJackie]

6. I found some info at Reader's Digest...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213166658

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Why in the world are people thinking mail is going to infect them?

Get a grip people. If that were true, then post office workers and all of the delivery service employees would be getting sick in vast and obvious numbers.