It wasn’t just you. Americans consumed more corrugated cardboard boxes than ever last year. Stay-at-home orders and stimulus checks fueled a banner year for e-commerce and a run on shipping boxes.

If it’s a very large box, it can be dollars,” said Brian Smith, an executive at Georgia-Pacific, which makes corrugated cardboard boxes. Box orders for online retail are up by more than 30% ...

The Boxery announces large cardboard boxes with double-walled construction, designed to handle heavy loads and rough shipping for e-commerce.

The scratcher was made entirely of cardboard. It came inside its own cardboard mailing box. And that box had been stuck inside another, much larger cardboard box and surrounded by bubble wrap.