More than a third of Americans have been victims of porch pirates at least once according to ADT, but why? It’s an ideal crime of opportunity and if the item on your porch happens to be expensive or very popular, then it also has high resale value.
Over the past few years, there's been a tremendous increase in online shopping and that's made package theft a high value crime. For instance, in a recent report, Security.org revealed that package thieves stole over $8 billion dollars worth of online orders last year and each package was worth an average of $222.
While some may consider package theft a more minor crime, it's becoming such a large scale issue that some lawmakers are moving to make it a federal crime akin to tampering with postal mail. Though most online retailers have a system

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