The Surefire 123A Lithium 3-volt batteries that I ordered from Amazon were delivered today…I was getting the delivery updates from Amazon. When I got the text that the package was delivered, I looked thru the glass at the front door, but nothing was there. I put on my coat and hat and went to look on the driveway (we are having snow and my driveway and sidewalk are not cleared, so some delivery drivers will place a package up against the closed garage door). No joy. OK, the mailbox, surely, that is where they are…nope! Nothing. Then I see the faint boot tracks in the snow on my across-the-street neighbors’ front yard... their address is only 1 number different from mine. So up their driveway I go to face their Ring video doorbell. Sure enough, my Amazon package with my name and address on it is lying on their front porch right next to their Amazon package with their name on it! I took mine and walked back home.

So, am I a Porch Pirate if I had to take my package off my neighbor’s front porch?? Will the police come and ask me to prove that it was my package?

I’d a showed the label to the doorbell. Then they’d know it was yours.

Before Christmas, our neighbors were out of town visiting their daughter. Wife and I were returning home, and she observed a package sitting on the neighbor's front porch. Knowing the neighbors wouldn't be home for several days and not wanting the package to disappear, she "suggested" that I go retrieve it. Since it was raining, I put the hood up on my jacket when doing so. When I got into the house, I asked the wife to text the neighbor to let her know we had the package. Before she could, the neighbor was calling me to tell me she had gotten an alert from her doorbell camera and observed someone "steal" a package from their porch.

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Originally posted by SigJacket:
I’d a showed the label to the doorbell. Then they’d know it was yours.

Thank you! I actually did do just that!!

Sounds like a good time to meet the neighbors - I'd walk back over and recap the story. Good laughs, they'll appreciate the follow through and you might get a cold beer. Or warm coffee.

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Originally posted by SigJacket:
I’d a showed the label to the doorbell. Then they’d know it was yours.

Probably smarter to show it to the camera.

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Originally posted by Mark in Michigan:

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Originally posted by SigJacket:
I’d a showed the label to the doorbell. Then they’d know it was yours.

Thank you! I actually did do just that!!

What I'd do too.

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Originally posted by Shaql:

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Originally posted by SigJacket:
I’d a showed the label to the doorbell. Then they’d know it was yours.

Probably smarter to show it to the camera.

On a Ring the camera is in the doorbell. Can't show it to db w/out camera seeing it.

You need the hat, eye patch, and say "arrrggg" randomly at the end of your sentences.

To take it a step further, though you may not want to but, for info, you could just ring it and wherever they are it will alert their phone and if they wish to talk to you you can address any kind of issue you're having. Again, maybe not in your particular case but I've spoken to a delivery person thru the doorbell audio while I was miles from home at another location and resolved a situation that otherwise the delivery person would have just left a note and had to return. So they do have benefits.

Showing it to the camera is what I would have done, at a minimum. It would have been better long-term to meet the neighbors. If it happened once, it will likely happen again.

Funny story....My teenage daughter aka "girl genius" made a typo entering our address into her apple wallet and started complaining abut missing packages (and she shops online a lot). On a hunch I walked next door and sure enough there were about 10 boxes of girly stuff on his front step.
I told him about it the next time I saw him in case anyone saw me and he just laughed because he never uses his front door so they would have just sat there

Today, I was out walking the dog and my across-the-street neighbor was out clearing some snow/ice from his driveway. So, I took your advise and went to talk to him about the package 'incident'. When I asked him if he saw me on his video door bell he replied no, he hadn't! I described how my package had been delivered to his place instead of mine, but he did not see me on his doorbell video. And then he described how other things had been mis-delivered to his house in past and assured me that it was OK. We both had a good laugh over it.

Then he told me that the Girl Scout cookies that I ordered from his daughter would be arriving soon, so Yumm!