Yes, but the recipient is also the one who's installing the camera, so one of the two impacted parties has a vested interest in knowing and therefore it is usef

Yes, but the recipient is also the one who's installing the camera, so one of the two impacted parties has a vested interest in knowing and therefore it is useful. If you knew it was stolen, then you can immediately act with that knowledge in mind. You don't have to worry about whether or not the postman scanned your package with the wrong device (falsely showing that it has been delivered when it will be tomorrow), or if they plopped it down at your neighbor's driveway by accident, or if the delivery driver hid it from porch pirates but also yourself. It's just nice to know that yes, it was stolen, you're not getting it back, time to go to Amazon support/order a replacement/go to a physical store rather than being in a limbo state.