Wife and I vacationed up in Maine back in October. Stayed in Bar Harbor, visited Acadia National Park. It's a beautiful as they say that time of year.

However, driving around the island, strangest thing, all manor or FedEx, UPS and Amazon packages left at base of mailbox at the road. Easy pickins for anyone so inclined, except no one is. PHPaul might chime in here, but I expect he's gonna tell us it's a nice place to live. Too bad the rest of the country can't be more like that...

I live in a different part of the State, but mostly still rural.

Neighbors still look out for neighbors for the most part. Unwanted 'guests' get spotted pretty quick and turned away.

It's not perfect though, you do see a rash of Facebook posts from people missing shipments. Just not as organized or widespread as other places.

Here also, no porch pirates to worry about.

Rual Kentucky here, and at least in my area that is something that doesn't happen all to often, but once in a great while it does.

ARman

As others have said, I think it's as much about being rural/small town as anything.

I imagine (tho I don't have any direct evidence) that such things happen more frequently in Augusta/Lewiston/Portland/Bangor.

Paul, I can confirm that Bangor and Biddeford have a higher percentage of pirates.

I probably should have posted what reminded me of this. CNBC published a story Sunday that per a report by Safewise, 260 million packages stolen this year, 50 million more than a year ago.

CNBC

Personally I can never recall an instance of it happening to me, either at home or the office. But clearly it's affecting lots of folks...I guess the retailer accepts this as etail cost of business and replaces it...

I reckon this explains at least in some measure explains this AMZN chart.

Memphis 'burbs here.


Porch pirates abound. You can often skip a rock off 2 or 3 of their heads before it hits the ground...