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I'm actually a little bit shocked that people are this naive. You should try to ship virtually everything to either an Amazon locker or a workplace or somewhere

I'm actually a little bit shocked that people are this naive. You should try to ship virtually everything to either an Amazon locker or a workplace or somewhere with a concierge. This theft of packages is absolutely rampant throughout every major metropolitan in the U.S. If your package is going to be dropped off casually somewhere, it had better have inexpensive contents.

hu3 6y ago
Sorry but no, this rate of package theft is not the norm around the globe and law abiding citizens should not have to take such measures. Government needs to find a solution. And no, people are not this naive. Don't belittle them. That's just victim blaming.
- hshshs2 6y ago
  the solution already exists, you pick up your package from a monitored location... what the hell is the government going to do to beat that? in my neighborhood I just have to go to the local bodega to pick things up
- zeppelin101 6y ago
  I agree that this isn't how things should be, but it clearly is. And with the way our politics are going in Democrat-run cities, I don't see this problem getting any better, unless we'll start to have even more places to ship our packages to. Right now, Amazon has clearly done the best job with this. My guess is that one "solution" to this might be a semi-public set of lockers - much like Amazon's, but available to other retailers and even to individuals. I personally think that America is slowly becoming more like Brazil and South Africa. But we'll just have more elaborate rationalizations for all of these changes.
  - pavel_lishin 6y ago
    Are Republican-run cities better managed?
    - Gibbon1 6y ago
      Show me one.
    - zeppelin101 6y ago
      I've lived on the west coast my whole life, so I don't know much about other types of cities. Suffice it to say, all the major cities on the west coast have a lot of empathy for the downtrodden, such as the homeless and drug-addicted and they don't want to treat people who have such problems as criminals. But you could argue that they've gone too far with empathy. You should look up this documentary "Seattle Is Dying" by a local Seattle news station (KOMO4). They've actually done 2 parts to it, several years apart. Really shows you what's going on the west coast and how excessive compassion can have unintended consequences. Myself, lean left of center politically, but it's become very clear to me that liberal policies are just not working for the cities along the west coast (Seattle, Portland, SF, LA, etc). Now, this article talks about NYC, which is on the other side of the country. And we all know that Chicago, quite possibly the democrat-affiliated major city, has been infamous for its crime and corruption since the times of Al Capone. So it seems to me that there is a pattern of very left-leaning cities creating policies that come from a good place but end up having disastrous consequences.
  - kwhitefoot 6y ago
    The solution here in Norway is that packages too big to fit in your post box (12x 25x35 cm) are delivered to a local supermarket, petrol station, or other shop nearby. You get a text or a note in the post with a number on it and go to collect it, if is valuable you will have to show ID.

hu3 6y ago

Sorry but no, this rate of package theft is not the norm around the globe and law abiding citizens should not have to take such measures. Government needs to find a solution. And no, people are not this naive. Don't belittle them. That's just victim blaming.

hshshs2 6y ago
the solution already exists, you pick up your package from a monitored location... what the hell is the government going to do to beat that? in my neighborhood I just have to go to the local bodega to pick things up
zeppelin101 6y ago
I agree that this isn't how things should be, but it clearly is. And with the way our politics are going in Democrat-run cities, I don't see this problem getting any better, unless we'll start to have even more places to ship our packages to. Right now, Amazon has clearly done the best job with this. My guess is that one "solution" to this might be a semi-public set of lockers - much like Amazon's, but available to other retailers and even to individuals. I personally think that America is slowly becoming more like Brazil and South Africa. But we'll just have more elaborate rationalizations for all of these changes.
- pavel_lishin 6y ago
  Are Republican-run cities better managed?
  - Gibbon1 6y ago
    Show me one.
  - zeppelin101 6y ago
    I've lived on the west coast my whole life, so I don't know much about other types of cities. Suffice it to say, all the major cities on the west coast have a lot of empathy for the downtrodden, such as the homeless and drug-addicted and they don't want to treat people who have such problems as criminals. But you could argue that they've gone too far with empathy. You should look up this documentary "Seattle Is Dying" by a local Seattle news station (KOMO4). They've actually done 2 parts to it, several years apart. Really shows you what's going on the west coast and how excessive compassion can have unintended consequences. Myself, lean left of center politically, but it's become very clear to me that liberal policies are just not working for the cities along the west coast (Seattle, Portland, SF, LA, etc). Now, this article talks about NYC, which is on the other side of the country. And we all know that Chicago, quite possibly the democrat-affiliated major city, has been infamous for its crime and corruption since the times of Al Capone. So it seems to me that there is a pattern of very left-leaning cities creating policies that come from a good place but end up having disastrous consequences.
- kwhitefoot 6y ago
  The solution here in Norway is that packages too big to fit in your post box (12x 25x35 cm) are delivered to a local supermarket, petrol station, or other shop nearby. You get a text or a note in the post with a number on it and go to collect it, if is valuable you will have to show ID.