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Most days I receive zero packages. Two is so extravagant as to almost not be dull.
Was this photo taken with night vision spy glasses or something?
I can’t take credit for it. It was the picture in the delivery notification email from UPS.
That's the type of camera people use to photograph bigfoot & UFOs.
What’s the thing made of what appears to be glass piping?
My wife is the self-designated glass recycler for our neighborhood. Everyone leaves their glass jars and bottles on our porch and periodically she drives them up to the collection bin.
Picture quality is low, but that’s three or four glass jars all next to each other.
Delivery services try to get the lowest size file they can, since millions of packages are delivered every day.
90's movie "everything shot through a teal filter" style
Two packages. Lots of stuff on the porch. Look at that attractive doormat. Hardly dull at all
I’ve found that, with the proper attitude, almost anything can be dull.
Is your porch under water ?
I wonder if op lives in a pineapple
Are they usually stolen within ~3 hours?
No, never.
Good. Glad to hear. I've never had one stolen, and hope I and everyone else don't.
5-10 minutes is around the average in my neighborhood I’d guess. The town Facebook groups are always complaining about porch pirates. There’s a group of teens who follow the Amazon delivery drivers and make quick work of deliveries if they’re not picked up almost immediately.
Wow. That's terrible. I'm sorry to hear that.
It’s all good I just don’t order online and pay for a PO Box to have things delivered there if need be.
We had such a problem with package thieves that it was a factor in our move; that and AC.
Now this is our 'porch':
https://www.bluebits.ca/bluebox-our-advantages/
It's f'n wonderful: amazon, fedex, purolator (if they can find a 30-storey building), all put the package in the box (purcolator will 50-50 just drop it on the floor to be stolen) and use our phone number to tell the system to alert us.
I had this in the last condo I lived in, it was unbelievable. They even had a room for oversized packages that didn't fit in the lockers. Had absolutely zero issues over a 4-5 year period
Usually if I get a package it means I now have a chore to do.
it means I now have a chore to do.
Nerf and LEGO both ship to your house. Just sayin.
Setting up a LEGO set can feel like a chore sometimes
Plus you have to research nerf mods
I waited for the bus. It arrived on time, people waited in line and everyone paid their fare. Everyone took their backpacks off and used headphones.
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If I order packages, sometimes they love on my front step for days on end
In Holland packages are delivered to a neighbor if you're not home.
Honestly I find it so weird that they don't do this in the US, since stolen packages are apparently a huge problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'd be stunned if a single thing was ever stolen from my porch.
Lemmy: Live in a walkable city, packed in like rats, never mind the crime and no one needs a gun!
Hard. No.
Crime rates per capita are significantly lower in urban areas than suburban and rural areas. This further goes down in societies that treat the cause of crime instead of just shooting black people and enslaving kids like the US exclusively does as their criminal justice system.
Too many factors to say one is safer than the other. City and rural both cover a lot of demographic ground. For example, it'd be ridiculous to say South Chicago is safer than Evergreen, AL. Look at crime reports for your city. I'd bet the higher income areas report more crimes, despite being seen as "nice". Maybe those people report more, maybe it's simple theft, whatever, get complicated doesn't it? Living in a meth infested trailer park in Evergreen though, yikes.
In any case, my semi-rural place is theft free. It's upper-lower-class to lower-middle-class. Not broke enough to steal from one another, not rich enough that thieves cruise the hood. But in my experience, more people = bad.
Can I get numbers on that? Last time I looked up crime rate statistics on rural vs urban I found the opposite, that urban areas have higher crime rate per capita thanks to a number of compounding factors. I still think proper, high density design is better, but those were the numbers I saw.
Too hard to present real numbers without breaking it down by income, types of crime, city, state, county, population density, etc. Hell, even geography plays a role. Liberals love to bang the "cities safer!" drum, and of course conservative rural people feel safer, but there are far too many factors to make a facile comparison.
Country people tend to know each other personally, makes 'em feel safer when all they see in the city is an endless sea of monkey. Some find comfort in minding their own business, just a face in the crowd, and that's fine for them, freaks me out a bit. (I've lived both sides.) OTOH, the Hatfields might hold a grudge against the McCoy clan, and shit goes down now and again, including murder and baby mommas throwing down. And BTW, Cooter got drunk again and beat the shit out of Clem. Again. OTOOH, Crips vs. Bloods ring a bell? Poverty begets crime, and that can be a hood by hood thing. Yet higher income areas report more crime, in general. LOL, does that make sense?
See my comment that only touches the surface.
I've lived in major cities for my whole life and I've never had a package stolen.