‘Tis The Season For Porch Pirates But South Florida Man Builds ‘Amazon Wall’ To Protect Packages

CBS Miami ^ | November 22, 2021 | Ted Scouten

[nickcarraway]

[algore]

my friend has something like that, but many delivery people still leave packages on the door mat

[Responsibility2nd]

I live in a gated community. USPS will not deliver Amazon packages to my house.

I have to go to the Post Ofiice to pick them up. Which is always a PITA.

Solution? Amazon Lockers. They are everywhere. Most are accessible 24/7.

So if anyone has a problem with porch pirates - have your stuff sent to a locker.

[metmom]

Now everyone will know to check for fake planters.

[Pollard]

porch pirates

So glad I moved to a rural area.

[max americana]

there’s a few Youtube channels about porch pirates getting caught. One of them was the owner came out with a shotgun lol and the other was the guy chased the 2 porch pirates around the neighborhood.

Private mailboxes are all around here in Hollywood for actors etc. and they’re cheap. Safe against porch pirates and my GF uses the 7-11 Amz lockers. The issue is every 7-11 here is the amount of homeless around the stores..

[KosmicKitty]

Or look under a door mat for a key.

[Brian Griffin]

Potted plants can provide cover.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Do not have any problem since we live in the country, it is a quarter mile to our house and we have a dog. But when we lived in the city we had a locked metal box welded to the porch rails that, when you placed a package in top, dumped it into the area below.

You could get the packaged if you wanted, but you were going to have to work for it.

[DannyTN]

I just leave them impaled on poles in the front yard.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

If they don’t leave the packages on the mat, how are you supposed to trip over them?

[wally_bert]

I keep a UPS store box.

[StAnDeliver]

The driver is going to ignore the box and throw them on the porch for the purposes of the all-important (within AMZN) of the photograph.

How is doofus AMZN driver supposed to take the pic of him shoving the package through the slot (which is amazingly thin -- if he orders anything more than razors it is going on the porch). Agree with all previous posts that AMZN dropboxes are solid secure.

[hecticskeptic]

I think a good sized wooden box is about the right idea and put a spring loaded flip door at the top and ramp in it so that the boxes can slide down without being all bashed up. Then put one way spikes on the ramp all pointed the same way... the packages can slide down but if an idiot actually climbed in to steal a package, they’d never be able to get back out. Or better yet, have it slide down a ramp into a locked basement area... assuming the house has a basement.

Or just have a door with a coded lock... the delivery person has to call when arriving and you can give the code over the phone and even watch as the package is placed inside and then the door locked up. Then change the code for the next delivery. Would delivery people do that in the interest of

[Persevero]

Checking for fake planters takes effort. Thieves like to cruise by and see if there’s a package from the comfort of their car.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Potted plants can provide coverconcealment.
Fixed it for you.

[metmom]

Or better yet, have it slide down a ramp into a locked basement area... assuming the house has a basement.

A coal shute.

[AlaskaErik]

I live in a gated community. USPS will not deliver Amazon packages to my house.

I also live in a gated community and I've never had a problem getting packages delivered right to my front door from all three of the delivery services.

[Responsibility2nd]

We have cluster mailboxes outside the gate. So USPS never comes in the gate. FedEx will, Amazon will, UPS will. But not the post office.

There are large lockers in these cluster mailboxes that packages can fit in and the key will be put inside your mailbox. But USPS Service where we live is poor and inadequate and they have just about given up on delivering packages even to the cluster mailboxes. So they just leave it at the post office.