Packaging doesn't strike me as a particularly person-to-person type of thing where you need to touch other people.

I'd imagine gloves, masks, and safety glasses are probably fine.

Touching something someone else just touched after wiping their cough spray off their lips is definitely a risk booster.

24 hrs on cardboard, up to 72 hrs on plastic/stainless steel (smooth surfaces).

in a lab setting. Being able to infect a cell line in a lab is rather different from being able to infect a person. German public broadcaster NDR has a good podcast with an actual virologist, the transcript (in German, deepl.com should do the trick) is at https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/14-Coronavirus-Update-Vo...

Caveat: that's our best understanding at this time; that study hasn't been reproduced as far as I've seen.

I would take these as minimums, still wipe down outside material with bleach/windex/soap water.

Exactly, yes. Although, does the amount of ammonia in window cleaner actually do anything useful?

It is the degreaser that makes the outside of the virus fall apart.

Who says that these need to be human workers? Robots can help fulfill Amazon orders, and they are not vulnerable to the same viruses as humans.

The article states amazon is trying to hire 100k new employees right now for its warehouses.