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TLDR: Mark is legit.
I'm honestly really shocked by how casually people seem to steal these parcels, like what the hell?
I'm honestly really shocked by how casually people seem to steal these parcels, like what the hell?
As a European, I'm surprised that the postal services in the US just leave the packages outside, rather than ringing the doorbell and/or delivering it to a neighbor. Over here in The Netherlands, pickup points are common (my local groceries store is one), you can choose your delivery time (also in the evening) and they will deliver it to a neighbor when I'm not home. Why not avoid this whole problem with any of these…
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In California, thefts of under $950 are not felony crimes. And there's no more "three strikes". So you can steal packages for a living and, at worst, have to spend a week or two in jail over the course of a year. Not a bad living.
If I paid you $200, would you spend two weeks in jail? If getting that $200 meant risk to you (someone confronting you, someone else taking your money, risk of an officer giving you a beat down), would you still take it? It doesn't take a lot of risk to offset the "value" of stealing $950 labeled-worth goods (which will net you <$250 in cash).
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What are they gonna do, steal a house ?
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-loui... Wasn't a homeless person, but in St. Louis Missouri a house isn't out of the question.
i dunno, 4 free iphones is probably worth dealing with glitter and fart spray for a few minutes?
Those were like $300 androids.
In the Netherlands, when I order a package and no one's at home when it's delivered, it either gets delivered to my neighbors or to the post office, with a note of where to pick it up. It's never left at my door AFAIK. How is this not an option in the US?
> How is this not an option in the US?
In the US, there are at least four major carriers and in my experience only the official postal service does a decent job automatically delivering to nearby location (the local post office) if they can't hand-deliver to a person or a secure location. Some apartments complexes also have locked drop boxes that only the postal service can use.
UPS lets you set your default drop off to a nearby shop (but then you never get anything at your home), Fedex makes you manually change the delivery location while the package is in transit if you won't be at home. If the latter two attempt a delivery at your door and don't want to leave it, you have to wait until the next day for redelivery or drive to their inconveniently-located distribution warehouse to pick it up.
Amazon has their own delivery service that they use preferentially, and they rely on nonprofessional gig-economy labor, so you're lucky if your package isn't literally tossed at your door. They'll always leave the package at your home if that's the destination. If you don't want that, you have to set your delivery location to a locker, if one is available nearby.
This needs careful consideration if you ever decide to do it. Depending on the local criminal culture they could exact revenge. Then also know where you live and can do a lot worse things than taking a package. Police might later be involved but it might not be worth it. You are dealing with people who have no qualms stealing so it's not too crazy to expect other rash and illegal acts from them. I can also see some i…
I learned from Nextdoor, that a neighbor of mine put cat litter in an amazon box, and later found out her car's driver side window busted in and the litter dumped on the seat. I now just have packages sent to lockers and UPS/FedEX access points, and I know a few who have packages delivered to their office. The crappy part is that she captured clear detail of both events but police couldn't be bothered. Nest and Ring…
What are people's thoughts on if this is staged? Considering the views / subscriptions are the main motivation here, it might justify the expenses poured into this project – that is, it would be quite a waste if all that effort went into the build just to have no one actually take it off the porch. If actors were used, it would explain the lack of police involvement (it's easy to say, "police weren't interested" ). A…
>it's easy to say, "police weren't interested" I’ve had my house robbed, and had evidence from the bank when the robbers tried to use the checkbook to send money through Western Union. They had photos, state issued identification, address, etc of the people collecting the payments. The assigned detective would not read an email or respond to voice mails. The detective said he was too busy to read emails. Not sure tha…