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Nolte: Porch Package Thefts Explode 36 Percent in 2021
Breitbart ^ | 11/30/2021 | John Notle

Posted on 11/30/2021 8:49:37 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

“A recent survey found that a staggering 210 million packages vanished from porches across the US over the past 12 months,” reports the New York Post.

“Safewise found that a mind-boggling 64.1% of Americans have been victims of package theft in the last year — a 36% increase from the prior year, according to the survey.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: explode; package; porch; thefts
This happened to my boss at work. She had a baby and people where sending her gifts. Half of them were stolen off her apartment entrance.
1 posted on 11/30/2021 8:49:37 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Had several boxes snatched earlier this year. Hope they enjoyed the feminine hygiene products, deodorant, and bubble gum flavored kids mouthwash. Idiots.


2 posted on 11/30/2021 8:56:04 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Perhaps we need something like those knife surrender bins in the UK (seriously). You can put stuff in, but need a key to take stuff out.

Anyway, that we are even talking about this is tragic. So much for a civil society.


3 posted on 11/30/2021 8:56:28 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s why garage door openers come now with a guest access code that can allow deliverers to place the package in the garage then close it. It’s a random code so once used it can’t be used again.


4 posted on 11/30/2021 8:57:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Leaning Right

When the title said “explode”, I was hoping for retaliatory repercussions to porch thefts with examples.


5 posted on 11/30/2021 8:58:28 AM PST by BipolarBob (WHY are there no Democrats on Mt. Rushmore?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Any porch package thieves in my neighborhood would be shot on sight... I have no neighbors in sight and my driveway is a 1/2 mile.... Not to mention I have a bucket loader or just let the feral hogs and coyotes do the work.


6 posted on 11/30/2021 8:58:38 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I had one moron try to steal a package from my house while I was next door talking to my neighbor.

Let’s just say that my neighbor and I had some fun.


7 posted on 11/30/2021 9:00:02 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I live in a residential neighborhood in a house. I get a lot of things delivered, but as far as I know, nothing has ever been stolen. We still have mailboxes at curbside. I am amazed that we still get our mail during these lawless times. Only a matter of time until that will no longer happen.


8 posted on 11/30/2021 9:01:01 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Leaning Right
Anyway, that we are even talking about this is tragic. So much for a civil society.

The desire on the Left is to destroy civil society.

They think they will be in charge when that happens.

I think they will be surprised to end up in the Gulag or at the business end of violence.

But, they will shrug it off as "some eggs need to be broken to achieve an omelet (of socialism)".

That is the attitude Solzhenitsyn reported from the Soviet Gulags.

9 posted on 11/30/2021 9:01:48 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I use UPS Store for my packages, or my part-time job.


10 posted on 11/30/2021 9:04:44 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Theft may be one area where the Moslems have the right idea.


11 posted on 11/30/2021 9:05:04 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When they gave them a cute name, Porch Pirates, it guaranteed more of it happening. Some groups just follow the Amazon or FedEx truck around.

But there are some solutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDiA4_Hs61A

Dog crap exploding package.


12 posted on 11/30/2021 9:10:24 AM PST by pnut22
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To: marktwain

> The desire on the Left is to destroy civil society. <

Yep. The very best thing you can say about Leftists is that they behave like small children with no impulse control. If it feels good at the moment, they do it - even if there are serious long-term negative consequences.

But as you noted, many Leftists want those long-term negative consequences. They mean to remake society along Stalinist lines.

It’s a real pity that most blue-color Democrat voters do not see this.


13 posted on 11/30/2021 9:22:10 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Ha! In post #9, blue-collar Democrat voters, not blue-color.


14 posted on 11/30/2021 9:29:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Ditto for UPS store. I’ve had a box there for years.

The only problem I have ever had with the box isn’t the fault of UPS. Stamps.com users who send me things sometimes do. The software insists on making my address a PO Box at the main post office downtown. The post office usually had it forwarded.

I learned about this glitch from people I buy from when I checked an order confirmation and saw the problem.

Within a few minutes of talking to them and having the address manually entered, the wrong address would show.

Little things come home. Anything big by UPS or FedEx goes to the store.


15 posted on 11/30/2021 10:31:47 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: maddog55

“Any porch package thieves in my neighborhood would be shot on sight... I have no neighbors in sight and my driveway is a 1/2 mile.... Not to mention I have a bucket loader or just let the feral hogs and coyotes do the work.”

I’m guessing with no neighbor in sight for 1/2 mile, you are probably safe.


16 posted on 11/30/2021 10:41:32 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you are vaccinated, you cannot get COVID from someone who is not vaccinated. Lighted up Karen!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She should have had her packages delivered to her work address.


18 posted on 11/30/2021 12:39:59 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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