Tips to Protect Your Holiday Packages from Porch Pirates
The holiday shopping season is here, so we conveniently order gifts online and have them delivered. Many of us are at work when these packages arrive. Home video surveillance systems reveal that some delivery people don’t knock due to their heavy workload this time of year. Porch pirates take advantage of this.
Sadly, about 23 million Americans have had packages stolen right off their porches after they were delivered. These thieves are called “porch pirates.” Also, their stealing is happening more because more people are buying things online.
According to the Porch Pirate Report by Shorr.com:
- 92% of consumers have their packages delivered to their homes
- 5% of consumers have their packages delivered to their businesses
- 1% have packages delivered to a friend’s house, 1% to a neighbor’s house, and 1% to a parent’s house
53% of people have changed plans to ensure they’re home to receive a package, although they aren’t required to sign for it.
Protecting Your Packages
To truly protect your packages, install a home surveillance system. Specifically, a camera right outside your delivery door gives you all the details. For instance, you see exactly when the package arrives. Furthermore, this ability not only helps you catch a porch pirate in the act but also effectively resolves delivery disputes. Unfortunately, however, delivery companies sometimes deliver packages to incorrect addresses. Therefore, if they mark your package “delivered” but it never arrives, you can deduce someone else received it and readily start a claim.
If porch pirates see a camera pointing right at them outside, that can make them turn around and leave. Also, you can protect your packages in other ways. For example
- You can have your packages delivered to your job if that works.
- Another way is to have them sent to a friend, neighbor, or family member who will be home.
- Finally, you can tell the delivery company to leave your package at a back door or somewhere hidden.
Your Rochester, Syracuse & Buffalo Video Surveillance Experts
There are different ways for protecting your packages, but having a camera by the door is something that can serve you all year round. You will always know who has come to your porch, can be aware if anyone attempted or succeeded to get into your house, and can keep an eye on activities outside of your home. To learn more about you can protect your family and your home, call SPS Fire & Security at 585-770-0348 for a FREE, no-obligation consultation.
