Don't want your delivered brewstuff stolen from your porch? Check this out...

[seatazzz]

I heard about this on our neighborhood website. USPS offers what they call Informed Delivery, if you sign up for it you will get an email notification every day with scans of the mail you will receive that day. We've had a spate of packages & mail stolen in our neighborhood lately. I just signed up for it because our passports are being mailed out soon and I want to make sure we get them. Registration is lengthy but it may be worth it.

 

[Lefou]

Lotsa thievery this time of year.
I've considered hanging a wireless camera, but nothing has been stolen from us - yet.

 

[RM-MN]

Lotsa thievery this time of year.
I've considered hanging a wireless camera, but nothing has been stolen from us - yet.

Hanging the thief might be more effective.....

 

[BrewingAroundtheRrealm]

Informed Delivery sends you images of mail only. Not packages. Though if you create a My USPS account: https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action You can get tracking notifications for most packages. You can also manually add tracking info for packages which are not automatically added.

 

[passedpawn]

If your pkgs come from Amazon, check out the Amazon Locker options when you buy (it's a shipping option).

 

[Yooper]

I"ve been doing informed delivery for a long time. I get an email every day with our scanned mail. But not everything is scanned, and it just says "mailman with packages" if there is something too large to fit in our mailbox. It's better than nothing, for sure, but not really very informative.

 

[Shwagger]

I hear about this thievery a lot. And other mishaps in nice neighborhoods.

My solution is that I live in the hood and never have anything stolen. Ever. It's quiet as the grave here.

 

[Yooper]

I hear about this thievery a lot. And other mishaps in nice neighborhoods.

My solution is that I live in the hood and never have anything stolen. Ever. It's quiet as the grave here.

We've never had anything stolen either- but when I bought a new TV on Black Friday, I made sure to be home to meet UPS! It was a 45" tv in a flat screen big box, with the words "SMART ULTRA 4K TV" prominently displayed.

That might have been too tempting just sitting on my front porch on my neighborless street.

 

[Shwagger]

I'd would have papped it lol

 

[passedpawn]

I hear about this thievery a lot. And other mishaps in nice neighborhoods.

My solution is that I live in the hood and never have anything stolen. Ever. It's quiet as the grave here.

Wait a minute. Gulfport doesn't have a "hood"! OK, maybe I've only been to the nice parts.

 

[Lefou]

If your pkgs come from Amazon, check out the Amazon Locker options when you buy (it's a shipping option).

We get electronic notifications items will be delivered. Very handy.

 

[Shwagger]

Wait a minute. Gulfport doesn't have a "hood"! OK, maybe I've only been to the nice parts.

East of 49th. Hell, even around 58th. West is best!

 

[seatazzz]

I use the Amazon lockers as well, but sometimes you don't get the option to have stuff shipped there (oversize, gremlins, whatever). If nothing else I get stuff shipped to my work. I just have to make sure I leave instructions when ordering for no weekend deliveries. We ordered a Nintendo Classic Mini for our christmas present to each other and I'm having it shipped to work...no way in hell I want the package thieves to get that!!!

 

[MaryB]

In my town stealing a package is likely to get you shot!