With the holiday shopping season officially underway, you will be having packages delivered to your house. Ones that you have ordered to be delivered, and others that are being sent to you by friends and family. Thieves know this and are paying attention. Be ready to defend your porch from pirates.

The porch pirates are watching - and possibly teaming up

There are several ways to prevent shipped items from being temptations to those who would pilfer them and keep them or sell them to a secondary market online.

* Have an alternate delivery location . That could be at your workplace, a friend or neighbor’s house that you know is at home during the day. You could also opt to have the items shipped to carrier stores like a UPS shop, or carrier partner store locations, like a Walgreens or

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