I like the plastic and don’t think it’s going to change in the US or Canada anytime soon. There’s a fundamental difference in package deliveries in the US, a carrier or Amazon delivers the package to your doorstep and leaves it outside. Rain, sleet, snow, and porch pirates.
In most of the world, it is delivered inside to reception or handed personally to someone at your house or the next house with a slip. Cardboard is fine. At one of my places like this, it’s absurd to them to leave the package at my doorstep when I’m not there. But I have finally trained all the local companies to do so. And they all think I’m crazy. So the local drivers will WhatsApp me a picture of the delivery or call 7 times to make sure I’m not an idiot before leaving the package.