PORCH PIRATES DRIVERS
Set up a hiding spot for delivery drivers to leave packages so that they are not visible from the street.Solicit your neighbors to help-If your neighbors are home during the day, ask them to bring in your packages-or at least give the side eye to strangers who approach your property.Keep tabs on your packages by signing up for alerts.You can instruct drivers to leave a package at a back door, with a building superintendent, or in a coded lockbox. Some services let you indicate where to leave your package if you're not home. Give the delivery service special instructions.Raleigh and Wake Forest Police shared the following tips to protect your packages: Specific data on porch piracy is tough to obtain, as police departments group it with all larceny charges.Ī report in January in the American Journal of Criminal Justice found in a survey of 562 people from 49 states, 23.9% of respondents had been victims of porch piracy, with urban and suburban areas more likely targets than rural ones.
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We have lots of walkers, dog walkers, kids walking down the street, bicyclists and stuff, so it was shocking, and then you feel a little violated too. "Shocked a little bit, because it's such a well-traveled neighborhood. They pulled up their home surveillance system and saw shortly before 4:00 p.m., a woman slowly driving by, stopping her vehicle, walking towards their porch, and swiping two boxes. "We decided to look into it further and noticed one of the boxes that we thought was delivered and said it had been delivered wasn't there," said Berke. When they returned to their home in Raleigh, they saw a box on their porch had been opened. Monday, Michael Berke and his wife were out running errands. But with offices and businesses reopening and traveling picking up, it's important people remain alert as deliveries continue. (WTVD) - For months, people working and staying at home have been able to quickly grab their packages from their front porch.
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But with businesses reopening and traveling picking up, it's important people remain alert as deliveries continue.
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For months we've been able to keep a lookout as packages come to our doors.