“If you can read this, you’re on camera.”

I have cameras setup. Problem is that it detects moving shadows caused by headlights driving by as motion. Bad thing is that I get many clips of that as motion detected. Good thing is that everything is a false alarm.

I live in the sticks, so no... not unless you count the scanner that one dog tried to destroy (the scanner itself was undamaged) and the box of Lefsa another dog ate about 1/4 of.

I guess they don't count, as both dogs involved were mine.

As many others have stated, I've had several delivered to the wrong address, but nothing stolen after arriving on my porch...

Last month I had someone steal the contents of a package. They were thoughtful enough to leave the opened box for me. Does the count?

I had a package delivered next door once. They came and told me I had a package delivered to their house. I just walked over and got it. It was addressed perfectly. UPS driver just put it on the porch next door, maybe because they get so many packages that the driver just put it there. They are friends with the driver, so you would think the driver would notice the different name on the shipping label. Small town, small neighborhood.

With 98 votes, we are almost exactly the opposite of the NBC claim and we are being generous by not limiting the timeframe to the last year. While we could attribute the difference to guns, dogs, cameras, and long drives in the woods, I think it’s safe to call the NBC claim bullshit. That such a claim made it all the way to the national news level without someone saying, “Hey, that doesn’t seem possible.” really calls into question anything these parrots claim.

We haven't had anything stolen from the front porch yet. Others around here have. We've had several packages delivered to the wrong house. In one of those cases, the people had attempted to keep the package for themselves, but I had a talk with them and got it back. I was able to find the house using the photo that Amazon had posted of the package in front of someone else's door.

Nope. Private, dead end road, house not visible from it, odd cars get the stink eye from multiple neighbors. Must be greener pastures elsewhere.

Nope. Only had items stolen in transit. Namely a cell phone. Thieves popped open the box, took the iPhone, then sealed it up. When I reported it to FedEx and T-Mobile, both acted like nothing happened, and had a new phone shipped right away.

Our neighborhood has had a rash of porch pirates coming through the last few years. We only had one caught that kept coming back with the same car that was following a UPS truck making deliveries. On our cul=de-sac, we watch out for packages for each other to make sure packages don’t sit outside for more than a few minutes. I haven’t heard of any happening this year.

Small package a few years ago, they left the large package that was also there as it would be too obvious I guess.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
With 98 votes, we are almost exactly the opposite of the NBC claim and we are being generous by not limiting the timeframe to the last year. While we could attribute the difference to guns, dogs, cameras, and long drives in the woods, I think it’s safe to call the NBC claim bullshit. That such a claim made it all the way to the national news level without someone saying, “Hey, that doesn’t seem possible.” really calls into question anything these parrots claim.

If it's not outright lies, it's at least bad statistics generation.

One example would be if they got with USPS, UPS, and FedEx, and got a total of the number of reported stolen packages last year, then they compared that to the US population. Some simple math with minimal effort using those two numbers, and they could claims that based on the number of stolen packages versus the population total, 79% of the population has had a package stolen. But that totally ignores the complexities. Like when one person who has had multiple packages stolen. Or large groups of packages that were stolen in mass container/truck/train break-ins. Or the semi-frequent news reports of delivery drivers found dumping an entire pile of packages rather than delivering them. Etc.

Another way that folks sometimes generate statistics like this is they poll a small sample, and then try to extrapolate to a larger population. So they might poll 100 people, then when 79 of them say they've had packages stolen, they use that to claim that 79% of the entire population has had a package stolen. But that skews the results to reflect just the experience of people from the limited geographic/demographic group you polled, which often varies wildly from the overall experience of the population as a whole. Political polls are often deliberately performed this way, with the actual intent of coming up with skewed numbers that make their chosen candidate appear like they have a commanding lead.

Both are either lazy or straight up disingenuous ways to come up with figures that sound good for a headline or a sound byte when you preface it with "a recent poll/study shows..." to make it sound all official, but which aren't actually statistically valid.

My daughter lives in Brooklyn, NY. She caught a guy trying to steal one off her front porch and confronted him! She sent me a good picture from the security camera. The thief was a big guy who appeared to be in his 30's. After an argument, the thief left and she kept her package. I told her NEVER do that again.

Recently we had a lost firearm shipment thru USPS. Item shipped from Topeka, KS to K.C.MO area shipment was misdirected/ diverted to LA California. Low and behold it disappeared.

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Recently we had a lost firearm shipment thru USPS. Item shipped from Topeka, KS to K.C.MO area shipment was misdirected/ diverted to LA California. Low and behold it disappeared.

More 3rd world cesspool corruption. This is the kind of stuff that the public just expected from the mail in Mexico when I lived there. Back then the USPS was an entirely different organization than it is now. Our decline into 3rd world status is alarming to those with a point of reference for comparison.

Had a few stolen. Nearest neighbors are crackheads, so...

I answered yes, but it was a long time ago at a former residence. The contents of the went missing in transit - the wrapping/package made it to my house. It was an ebay purchase and the seller made good on a refund.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

I have had several misdelivered.

The post office and amazon can both pretty much track where the package was delivered to.

The post office one the driver seemed upset and went out of his way to retrieve it.

One misdelivered..package destined for Collierville Tennessee was delivered to someJUAN in Mexico. Thanks to DHL.
Currently have a MISSING IN ROUTE package with parts for my car. USPS

Not on Tabby's watch, and she's six now.

She's backed up by a RING system, in case she closes her eyes for a moment.