An Post to give two free postcards to every household.

The virus can be passed on a surface for 7 hours

If the postman has the virus you could be getting more than post delivered ....

The risk of this happening very unlikely though

marklazarcovic wrote: »

unless it's you asked to put yourself at xtra risk you probably won't see the risk .. I see the risk,it's beyond my comprehension tbh..

i suppose its the more isolated people who are more likely to want to engage with you, which would reduce your chances of catching anything, or of passing anything on to a lot of people....

Any house I've seen has this thing called a "letterbox"

It's usually a small rectangle hole in the door or beside the door.

Sometimes it's a box on it's own.


OP may not have heard of it, but maybe check your front door and you'll see it.


This means that the post person can simply pop the card in without making contact.




Why oh why do some people look for negative angles on even the most positive of ideas??????

worded wrote: »

The virus can be passed on a surface for 7 hours

If the postman has the virus you could be getting more than post delivered ....

The risk of this happening very unlikely though

Have you a reputable source for this?

NIMAN wrote: »

Have you a reputable source for this?

The poster probably saw a fakebook post or something in the daily muck that said

"in some circumstances it is "possible" that the virus "could" survive several hours on a surface."


In the same way it is "possible" that over 10,000 car drivers "could" have a head on crash today

Anyone got the actual time it survives on surfaces?

Not happy with my work situation at all but we have been told tough shīt basically.

citysights wrote: »

Cardboard 24 hours, surfaces 2- 3 days according to a BBC future article based on research, published in New England Journal of Medicine.

Are you having a laugh.so every delivery driver in the country is screwed.everything they have been told about the parcels they are delivering is totally incorrect.

The most favorite 2 words of scaremongerers

"up to"

Darc19 wrote: »

That's utter rubbish.

It's spouted out by certain politicians and usually always when they want to whine about something.

There is huge community spirit in rural areas - even more so at present.

I live in a rural area, and I come from a rural area and city folk have zero understanding how rural life works.

That has not been my experience to date even before this outbreak
Numerous times I have been the only person people have spoken to in a week
A five minute chat is not a hardship to most.
Last week elderly couple one with dementia I moved the wheelie bins out
All of five minuets’ no hard ship on my part just courtesy and empathy

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

"But how long can the new coronavirus linger on surfaces, anyway? The short answer is, we don't know. A new analysis found that the virus can remain viable in the air for up to 3 hours, on copper for up to 4 hours, on cardboard up to 24 hours and on plastic and stainless steel up to 72 hours. This study was originally published in the preprint database medRxiv on March 11, and now a revised version was published March 17 in The New England Journal of Medicine. "


The key phrase being " short answer is we don't know"

It might not be 100% certain but we do have an idea of its persistence on various surfaces. See table below. I will highlight though that I don't know that in the laboratory test they aren't detecting these viruses at a level below that likely to infect somebody handling the object.

Type of surface Virus Strain / isolate Inoculum (viral titer) Temperature Persistence Reference
Steel MERS-CoV Isolate HCoV-EMC/2012 105 20°C
30°C 48 h
8–24 h [21]
TGEV Unknown 106 4°C
20°C
40°C ≥ 28 d
3–28 d
4–96 h [22]
MHV Unknown 106 4°C
20°C
40°C ≥ 28 d
4–28 d
4–96 h [22]
HCoV Strain 229E 103 21°C 5 d [23]
Aluminium HCoV Strains 229E and OC43 5 x 103 21°C 2–8 h [24]
Metal SARS-CoV Strain P9 105 RT 5 d [25]
Wood SARS-CoV Strain P9 105 RT 4 d [25]
Paper SARS-CoV Strain P9 105 RT 4–5 d [25]
SARS-CoV Strain GVU6109 106
105
104 RT 24 h
3 h
< 5 min [26]
Glass SARS-CoV Strain P9 105 RT 4 d [25]
HCoV Strain 229E 103 21°C 5 d [23]
Plastic SARS-CoV Strain HKU39849 105 22°-25°C ≤ 5 d [27]
MERS-CoV Isolate HCoV-EMC/2012 105 20°C
30°C 48 h
8–24 h [21]
SARS-CoV Strain P9 105 RT 4 d [25]
SARS-CoV Strain FFM1 107 RT 6–9 d [28]
HCoV Strain 229E 107 RT 2–6 d [28]
PVC HCoV Strain 229E 103 21°C 5 d [23]
Silicon rubber HCoV Strain 229E 103 21°C 5 d [23]
Surgical glove (latex) HCoV Strains 229E and OC43 5 x 103 21°C ≤ 8 h [24]
Disposable gown SARS-CoV Strain GVU6109 106
105
104 RT 2 d
24 h
1 h [26]
Ceramic HCoV Strain 229E 103 21°C 5 d [23]
Teflon HCoV Strain 229E 103 21°C 5 d [23]

MERS = Middle East Respiratory Syndrome; HCoV = human coronavirus; TGEV = transmissible gastroenteritis virus; MHV = mouse hepatitis virus; SARS = Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; RT = room temperature

Table 1 from this paper
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/s0195-6701(20)30046-3/fulltext

The paper itself may be useful to be people as it also goes into methods of cleaning