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Wow that 43% of people who get online orders have experienced a theft seems super high to me. I'm trying to think of the lowest tech solution to this that woul

Wow that 43% of people who get online orders have experienced a theft seems super high to me. I'm trying to think of the lowest tech solution to this that would work. Maybe plexiglass lockboxes that are secured to the floor but left unlocked. Package delivery workers can put them in the boxes with little effort (important or won't be done) but only residents can open them up. Just enough to deter casual/opportunistic theft.

me_me_me 6y ago
There isn't a solution really. Drivers are paid too little to care and have to deliver too many packages - leading to mistreatment of a package and lack of time to knock and wait for the owner. You could maybe have an option to register with distributors to not deliver your packages but keep them in the centers and only send you a not that you can collect package. But that kind of defeats a purpose of delivery :/
- fatnoah 6y ago
  >There isn't a solution really. Drivers are paid too little to care and have to deliver too many packages - leading to mistreatment of a package and lack of time to knock and wait for the owner. The ultimate highlight of this was a rug that UPS told me was delivered to my home. I received the alert on my phone and went outside to try to find it, but couldn't. I wasn't too worried because it wasn't unusual for UPS to report packages as delivered up to 30 minutes before they actually arrived. (Yes, this happened more than once) About 25 minutes later, I received a call from a gentleman a couple miles away. He was washing his car when the UPS truck sped by and hit a bump, causing my rug and a couple boxes to fall out of the back and into the middle of the road (it was one of the hottest, most humid days of the year). Fortunately, my phone number was on the shipping label.
  - me_me_me 6y ago
    > causing my rug and a couple boxes to fall out of the back and into the middle of the road I though that only happens in the movies xD Or when buying stolen goods ("I swear man, it fall out of the back and into the middle of the road").
    - fatnoah 6y ago
      I didn't even think of that. I guess stuff can literally fall off the truck!

me_me_me 6y ago

There isn't a solution really. Drivers are paid too little to care and have to deliver too many packages - leading to mistreatment of a package and lack of time to knock and wait for the owner. You could maybe have an option to register with distributors to not deliver your packages but keep them in the centers and only send you a not that you can collect package. But that kind of defeats a purpose of delivery :/

fatnoah 6y ago
>There isn't a solution really. Drivers are paid too little to care and have to deliver too many packages - leading to mistreatment of a package and lack of time to knock and wait for the owner. The ultimate highlight of this was a rug that UPS told me was delivered to my home. I received the alert on my phone and went outside to try to find it, but couldn't. I wasn't too worried because it wasn't unusual for UPS to report packages as delivered up to 30 minutes before they actually arrived. (Yes, this happened more than once) About 25 minutes later, I received a call from a gentleman a couple miles away. He was washing his car when the UPS truck sped by and hit a bump, causing my rug and a couple boxes to fall out of the back and into the middle of the road (it was one of the hottest, most humid days of the year). Fortunately, my phone number was on the shipping label.
- me_me_me 6y ago
  > causing my rug and a couple boxes to fall out of the back and into the middle of the road I though that only happens in the movies xD Or when buying stolen goods ("I swear man, it fall out of the back and into the middle of the road").
  - fatnoah 6y ago
    I didn't even think of that. I guess stuff can literally fall off the truck!