At least 45% of Americans have lost a package to "porch piracy," a sticky-fingered fiend at one point or another, and the scourge spikes during the holiday season. Christopher Sadowski

New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer is out to save the holiday season — by boosting penalties for package pilferers.

On Monday, Gottheimer (D) introduced the “Porch Pirates Act,” aiming to slap thieves who filch boxes shipped by private companies with the same federal charges as those who molest US Postal Service deliveries — and increase jail time for offenders.

It’s a no-brainer bill: As online shopping has boomed — and shipping by companies like Amazon, UPS and FedEx — so too has box-snatching from stoops, porches, patios and doorsteps.

Amazon alone is on track to ship more boxes than the USPS by 2028

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