Stolen Packages

[red-sox-09.livejournal.com]

Long time reader, first time commenter.

I was wondering if anyone else has had any packages stolen off of their porches recently.  On Monday, I had 2 packages delivered (by UPS and DHL) around 1pm and by the time I got home at 5:30p, both were gone.  It seems that they were left right out in the open (I live on a busy cut-through street right outside of Davis, heading towards Powder House Square) so anything on the porch is visible.  Has anyone had any luck in getting UPS to deliver to the back?  I know people have mentioned before that they have locked boxes on the porch, but sometimes I get larger boxes so not sure this is an option.  UPS used to come at 5pm and he would hide the packages if we were not home so this hasn't been a problem as much in the past.

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"Leave package at back door"

[blalor.livejournal.com]

I'm on Bonner Ave in Medford; we've had a couple of packages go missing, including one with uninteresting contents that a hoodlum left on a neighbor's steps a few doors down. Now we always use the 2nd line of the address to say "LEAVE PACKAGE AT BACK DOOR" (in caps, italics, and bold, if possible!). It works 99% of the time. The times that it doesn't work is when UPS has a more-braindead-than-usual driver.

And then there was the time where UPS delivered a mis-addressed package to a non-existent house…

Re: "Leave package at back door"

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

The only downside there is, if the thieves can read, they know where to go to steal packages...