It can take seconds for someone to make their way onto your property, confiscate your delivered package, and then walk off for you to never see them or your goods again.

It has happened thousands of times and fueled an introduction of a wide range of security items that have been introduced in the market to address this issue.

From allowing delivery drivers in to your own home to complete the delivery, using special door locks and cameras etc, or using delivery bags with locks to keep away porch pirates, a variety of methods have been tried over the years.

There are hundreds of videos online of porch pirates being caught during the act, some of them have been decent enough to return the goods when caught.

As millions of people have turned to ordering more online this year, for groceries, clothing, and other items, that has meant that there has been an increase in package thefts. Especially now with the holidays approaching there are even more chances for them to find packages that have been left out on one porch or another.

There have been hundreds of package thefts reported in cities around the U.S. this year.

Across the country you can find various reports of package theft, it isn't isolated to one region alone of course. One of the cities that has the highest rate of package theft is Pittsburgh, along with other areas like St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Jersey City.

A Study Of The Worst Porch Pirate Cities

One recent study investigated the Google search information for stolen packages and other terms related to porch pirates etc, and they were able to make a list of what might be the cities facing the worst prevalence of package thefts.

The top 10 worst areas for thefts were

• St. Louis, MO
• Minneapolis, MN
• Jersey City, NJ
• San Fran, CA
• Washington, DC
• Buffalo, NY
• Seattle, WA
  Oakland, CA
  Orlando, FL
  Cincinnati, OH

The region that turned out to be the best? Raleigh, NC, along with Bakersfield, CA, Greensboro, NC, Plano, TX, and New York City, NY.

To address the problem, burglary and theft law enforcement groups are already looking to crackdown on package thefts during the holiday season and have taken to deploying decoy packages that have tracking devices in them in an effort to catch thieves.

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