While the number of package thefts declined between 2024 and 2024, data shows thieves still manage to bilk about 250,000 packages each day in the United States.

Your phone buzzes and you glance at an incoming alert: The mailman just delivered a much-awaited package – a gift for a loved one – depositing it, unguarded, on your front porch.

But by the time you arrive home from work, the package has vanished. You scour the porch in the hopes it's just tucked away out of sight, but the box is nowhere to be found.

As online shopping has become the default means by which many Americans obtain big-ticket items and everyday essentials alike, the number of package thefts have soared.

Across the Midwest, so-called “porch pirates” brazenly target unattended packages, particularly during the holida

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