Pick one “hidden drop” spot (deck box, behind the side gate, tucked by a planter, side door) and make that your default delivery note with USPS/FedEx/UPS. Don’t reinvent it every order. Set it once ...

Porch piracy isn’t a minor inconvenience anymore. Practically everyone has experienced it, and it’s a nuisance that turns convenient online shopping into a gamble. If you’re tired of replacing things ...

But having those packages stolen? Not so convenient. As retail deliveries have become ubiquitous, so too has package theft, so much so that a cottage industry of "porch pirates"—thieves who steal ...

The holiday shopping rush is here, which means it is peak season for package thieves. Porch pirates may be waiting to pounce on your deliveries, and in a case in Fort Worth, Texas, a thief swooped in ...

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POTENTIAL PORCH PIRATES. IT COULD HAPPEN ANYWHERE. I MEAN, THESE PEOPLE KNOW IT’S HOLIDAY TIME. TERRY WINKLEMAN COMES OVER TO HIS DAUGHTER’S HOUSE ON SOUTH BRADY STREET TO CARE FOR HER CATS WHILE ...

Porch package theft is no longer a niche annoyance; it has become a routine cost of online shopping for millions of households. When at least 58 m packages vanish in a single year and roughly 25% of ...