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Fending Off the Package Pirates
Are you tired of deliveries being stolen before you have the chance to retrieve them? Outdoor package bins offer a solution.
Jordan Slocum and Barry Bordelon installed a ParcelBin from CitiBin after having package deliveries stolen from the stoop of their brownstone.Credit.Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
April 20, 2021, 7:00 a.m. ET
Shortly after moving into their renovated brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, at the end of 2019, Jordan Slocum and Barry Bordelon began experiencing a problem that now consumes many urban dwellers: package theft.
“It was three or four packages, over the course of a few months,” said Mr. Bordelon, 40.
Package Thefts Continued To Rise In 2020, Were You A Victim?
The holidays are finally over, a new year has begun, and we re finding out just how many households were hit by porch pirates in 2020. Last year it was reported that 1 in 3 Americans would be a victim of porch pirates, according to the Daily Mail and a survey by C & R Research in 2019 found that over half the respondents (56%) say they know someone who had a package stolen. It s one year later and C & R Research looked again at package theft numbers in the U.S. and compared them to last year s numbers.
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WEST VALLEY CITY – In the past 12 months, an estimated $5.4 billion worth of merchandise has been stolen off porches across the United States according to a recent survey by Finder.
Porches like yours. Porches like mine. Porches like hundreds, if not thousands, of Utahns this year alone.
In just the past few weeks, it has happened to people like Doreen Armstrong. She told us she lost, About $1,500 worth of stuff.
It has happened to guys like Spencer Whiting. Even when you have cameras, it doesn t mean that you re safe, he said.
Even when you have cameras, it doesn t mean that you re safe.