How to Stop Porch Pirates from Stealing Your Packages

Montebello, NY - Consumers spent $861 billion online with U.S. retailers in 2020, up a whopping 44% according to Digital Commerce 360. While the pandemic and the closure of retail shopping locations drove this increase, the dramatic increase in online shopping is likely here to stay.

More online shopping means more packages sitting on front porches and with more people returning to work, more porch piracy.

Who will receive your packages when you are at the office? How will you protect your deliveries?

Who Should Worry about Porch Pirates?

Just about everyone should be concerned about porch pirates! Two out of five Americans claim to have been victims of a package theft at some point (Security.org, 2020).

From New York City, where 90,000 packages disappear each day (NYT 2019), to California, the state with the worst package theft (Campus Safety Magazine, 2020), porch piracy is a much too frequent occurrence.

Annual losses due to package theft hit $5.4 billion, or $157 per package, according to a report in Yahoo! Money, and will only go higher.

Don’t Count On the Police to Solve the Problem

Police arrest fewer than 10 percent of criminals involved in package theft (City Journal, 2020). Georgia, Michigan, South Carolina, Texas, and California are among states that have taken legal action to stop porch piracy but even there, package theft is low on the list of police priorities these days.

Standard Remedies: Expensive, Inconvenient, Ineffective, or Invasive

Commonly suggested remedies include security cameras, having neighbors keep an eye out, delivering packages to friends or family who are at home, paying extra for insurance, allowing delivery people inside the home, and renting a PO box. However, these remedies are expensive, inconvenient, unreliable, good only after the fact, or invasive. With a PO box, you can receive deliveries only from the USPS, not FedEx or UPS.

iPostal1 Porch Piracy Solution

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Think of this service as your personal secure parcel mailbox where you can pick up your packages during business hours whenever convenient for you or easily forward your mail or packages to any U.S. address.

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