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Easily opened for sure, but cleanly? I bet not. The knife will be clean and smooth, and satisfying. The cardboard will never see it coming.
Lol ... as a kid one of my first jobs was working at a grocery store. I learned early on from older people at the same job how to separate the tape and peel it off as fast as possible. If the box had more than one strip of tape, you just used the pointed edge of anything to snap the tape ..... a pencil,a pen, a nail, a screw, a clipboard, sometimes just even a fingernail.
As soon as you remove the tape, you cleanly get at everything inside without damaging anything.
I once watched a friend of mine at the same job saying that he knew better and always used an exacto knife. After he ruined several boxes of merchandise, they took away his knife.
I work with frozen food boxes and on some of them you can just give few good smacks along the top and half of the tape will just unstick. Then just give a good pull to one of the halfs and you are in.
To break down the box, just flip it on the side and punch, usually that is enough to get one end of the tape unstuck and you can pull it off.
No tools needed at all
That's exactly the method I was taught. After you do it enough times, you can open a box in seconds without any tools at all.
The other neat one was packing straps ... you find the seam, turn it over, peel off the opposite loose end and the strap snaps free.