We have two in our small town.When no one is home to take delivery Purolator drops off packages at their depot at the hardware store.When no one is home to take delivery, UPS has a deal with the post office,and you can pick up undeliverable parcels there.There will be a notice in your post box.

Never will they dump a box on your porch if no one is home to take delivery.

There you go. It’s not thieves, just helpful Canadians taking the packages back to the depot! You should thank them.

I leave instructions on all my shipments to: "Drop shipment on porch." I've never had any problem. I think package theft must be a town/city problem.

Monday while I was out resetting my trap line I got a delivery of office supplies. Instead of leaving them on the porch, the delivery guy must have drove all the way down the driveway past the house and stopped by my shop. I found the packages inside the shop by the door. I thought that was really strange.

The click-n-ship (post office) packages I have recently shipped say right on the shipping label - Leave if no Response.

The last thing the post office needs this time of year is dozens of folks trying to pick up packages because the carrier couldn't leave them.

Works good here,never lost anything.With the amount of stuff the post office handles a post box notice shoved in the box is nothing.They used to handle it all in the past before these delivery companys existed.

My Grandmother usta' live in Orange, NJ(inner city for those not familiar with New Jersey. Every year my mother would make us go there a couple of days before Christmas. For sport dad and I would box up lion feces from the zoo, wrap it up like a Christmas package and leave on top of our car when we went into grandmothers house. Then we would watch out the window to see how long it would be before it was stolen. Usually less than 5 minutes. Ah, what we did for fun in the 60's!!!

super idea eric....

In my younger days, someone in my circle of friends came up with an activity we called “Poo Pursing.” We’d go to the second-hand store and buy a bunch of cheap purses, then go to someone’s dog yard or farm and load them each with manure. Then we would plant a purse on a sidewalk, in a mall parking lot, etc and park somewhere to watch. Thieves would usually grab the purse and jump in their car, then either dump it out in their lap or blindly plunge their hand in. Both were very entertaining to watch. Of course this was before every car had tinted windows so we could usually see.

The unfortunate collateral was when a Good Samaritan would pick up a purse and take it into the store lost-and-found, where an employee would inevitably look for identification inside. The Customer Service departments weren’t very happy with us, but overall it was worth it.

My, what’s wrong with people today...sad...regardless if it’s left on the porch it belongs to the home owner not some lowlife...I had 5 packages left on the porch today, if the post office brought every package back to the office when the owner was not home can u imagine the back log...

Why can’t we just trust our neighbors or a passerby to leave things alone...
Crazy world today...

heck they aint been able to walk past our traps half the time since we started walking upright same deal.

Maybe we could get Nancy P to pass a law that demands eveyone must buy a huge steel box sitting on the curb. It will have a 30'' vacuum tube going right to the kitchen table. You can get amazon packages , pizza, 1/2 hog or have your deer processed and delivered straight to your freezer. It will have to wait, everyone has maxed out their budget on the wall go fund me account.

When I get a package delivered by Fedex or UPS or the USPS, the Mail Girl , FedEx delivery Man or the UPS Delivery Girl just knocks on the front door; and then walks right on in.

If I was retired and this was happening around me, I would plant Amazon packages on my porch and shoot them with a paintball gun when they stole it.

You need to get up off your fat arses and go pick up your own mail at the post office instead of waiting for someone to bring it to you,lol.

One surefire way to STOP this nonsense is to do things the old fashion way. Go to a local store and purchase or order the item from a local store and support your home town businesses. Then you carry the item home and if someone tries to take it away from you, you blow their -ss off.

In the big city the drivers are all holiday temps and don't give a crap. I have all m y stuff come with, "If not home drop over the driveway gate" so the dog's can watch them, but they can't be bothered to do even that! So I have all box's "Signature Required", and even that seems to be too much effort.

That is not a problem IF the local retailers have what I want. Retailers are more careful not to inventory anymore than they have to and far more often than not, they don't stock what I want, so......

It's a real problem even in the rural areas of Virginia.

Problem here too. Porch cameras helped catch several. The local sheriff's also planted dummy boxes with little tracking devices In them. Easy to follow the goods right to their new destination.
I've also seen dummy boxes with heavy bags of used cat litter in them, or concrete block boxes up with dead fish in the holes.
Thieves are lowlifes in all shapes, sizes and walks of life from the capture pics I've seen online.
Some were literally following the delivery trucks all day long.
Jim