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My son lives on a street of brownstones in Troy, N.Y. Because all packages were left on the front stoop, there were thefts, so he ended up getting a box at UPS, and has all packages sent there. They notify him when he has a package, and on his way home from work, he stops there to pick it up.

I live on the second floor of a two story building if you don't count the garden apartments. The sub carrier who knows me always brings my packages to my door. The regular guy whom I've never seen, and other subs have sometimes left my packages in the front hall. There is no locked entrance to the building. The sub told me the postal service doesn't want them doing more than just the minimum, ie., climbing stairs to leave packages. He won't do that, so he delivers packages to the doors on the Q.T. I gave him a Visa gift card this past Christmas, because he's even checked on me when I hadn't gone downstairs for a few days to get my mail out of the locked mailbox.