It has its’ pros, if you have a lot of packages delivered to your house via Amazon.com, it’s nice to know when the package arrives. And I actually do think it will deter crime because now criminals know they are watched.
But as with anything, it can be abused, and people have to be vigilant about that.
What has caused this increase in criminal behavior? Used to be you could leave your doors unlocked and never worry about a thing.
Actually, I use Amazon Locker locations to pick up my packages. As such, no need for Ring doorbell.
It has its’ pros, if you have a lot of packages delivered to your house via Amazon.com, it’s nice to know when the package arrives. And I actually do think it will deter crime because now criminals know they are watched.
Amazon has my text address, and they take a picture, time dated of any packages left on my front porch or in the car port. Then the delivery person rings the bell and leaves.
We had a high IQ driver, maybe 72, for one of the major package delivery companies. She would leave our packages and others at a neighbors’ on a hidden side. Then, she would say it was delivered. This was sop if the package was heavy.
A neighbor across the street cracked the code, and warned all of us that if we were expecting packages to be delivered by this carrier, and were notified and there was no delivered packages at our homes. He knew where our packages probably were.
So I was missing 2 heavy packages and an expensive one with medical gear. The neighbor across the street, and I went into the neighbor’s side behind his car port, and there was a stack of packages. He had 2, and I had the 2 heavy ones and the expensive one..
I backed up my pickup in the absent neighbor’s driveway. The watchful neighbor and I loaded the packages of other neighbors, 10+, for the other neighbor’s up and down our cul de sac. We delivered the ones left in the absent neighbor’s side area. All of them were big and heavy.
Apparently, the missing neighbor, where the packages been left had some special arrangements with the high IQ delivery person. She left everyone’s package on the side of his carport/ house. Later, he and one of his kids would deliver the packages to real customers.
Two of my providers didn’t want to hear about what happened as they had a signature that the packages were delivered. The 3rd one got involved. The local office of the delivery service didn’t to hear about it until one of the neighbors went into the office with a lawyer friend.