Questions regarding transmission, life span of bacteria outside of the body..

I'm curious as to how lyme, its coinfections spread from person to person, other than intercourse. Yeah, there's the obvious, blood, saliva, all that, but can anyone get a bit more specific with it? Also, any ideas as to how long the bacteria can live outside of the body? Say I sneezed on a bottle of pop, someone went to get a drink a day or so later, then, for whatever reason, happened to stick the hand they used to touch it into their mouth - could they get infected?

To be on point, I sent someone a bunch of gifts a couple years back (before I knew what my sickness was), one of which was something I'd had a lot of contact with, likely drooled on it during the night - could the infection have lived the two (at the very least) to four days the package took to get to its destination? My gut, and the person's state of health over the past few months are telling me so. In which case, I'm much more devastated by all of this; that'd be so cruel, unfair, such a good person, so undeserving of this.

I'd love to be wrong, but I just don't know. Anyone got any concrete knowledge on this sort of stuff? Link me to some other threads, articles, whatever you have to do. Opinions are fine, but I would like to be certain.

Please. Thanks, ladies, gents.

Well. Lyme does not like oxygen. Based on that alone I would imagine just hanging 'around' on the surface of things is not really a viable mechanism of transition. There are a lot more people out there that treat their bodies way worse then mine, so I would imagine if it were that highly transmissable people would be getting ill in hoards-including my entire family which has not happened.

Of course, there is always that fateful 'chance' but in terms of probability not likely.