90,000 packages are stolen in NYC every day. One building fought back. Julie Besonen, New York Times Feb. 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE: This Baltimore resident uses a decoy package, marked with an X, to discourage the so-called "porch pirates." The thieves are filmed by a camera located above the door.SEBASTIEN DUVAL/AFP via Getty Images NEW YORK — A yellow note fluttered down like a leaf when I opened the door to my apartment one day last fall. Handwritten, it read in part: “Hello — My package was stolen on 10/1/2020. I came home to find the empty box (item removed) in the trash. It was a nice, gray women’s blazer. Please return to 5C, no questions asked.”