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The United States is big, with many different areas that have different levels of crime. Sometimes with affluent areas in walking distance of destitute areas,
by dec0dedab0de 8y ago
The United States is big, with many different areas that have different levels of crime. Sometimes with affluent areas in walking distance of destitute areas, which is a whole other problem. One location being robbed repeatedly is not surprising, and not significant. If it were, Amazon would be requiring signatures instead of just sending you another one when something goes missing.
- derefr 8y agoAmazon requiring signatures wouldn’t much help in preventing the problem. They’d just get a signature from the thief “just returning home” in the front yard, find out later that it wasn’t a match, and then... nothing, really. They’d know the buyer wasn’t liable, I guess? Doesn’t do anything for them, loss-prevention-wise; they still owe the buyer the thing they ordered. What Amazon is doing is much more clever: whenever possible, they’re now recording the serial number of the product they ship to you. This way, if the police find it when busting a fence, they can (hopefully) get the fence’s providers out of them and then actually bust them, too (because now they have real physical evidence—along with testimony—that that particular person stole a particular thing.)