By an edhat reader
A thief stole nine items in three packages at exactly 2:30 am on Christmas morning.
In the video you can see a single male with athletic shoes and a hoodie smoking. He approaches the door and walks away with the packages.
The camera was installed after the same thing happened last year on Christmas day. The apartment is by Kids World on Garden Street.
This is awful, but totally preventable if you’re expecting a package from Amazon (as this one is). If you are expecting a package from Amazon, keep an eye out on the tracking email they send you. By 8pm it should be delivered, so go outside and check. If you aren’t home and know a package is going to be delivered that day, have it sent to a different address for pick up (really easy to do). That said, if someone is sending you a package and you aren’t expecting it, well, not sure what to do. Again though, package thieves like this are the lowest of the low and should be marched through the town publicly when caught!!
We had the usps deliver a package on Christmas eve at 9 pm. It’s entirely possible they were at home but asleep.
If that happened in Singapore, he’d be flogged and imprisoned for years… That’s why there is virtually NO crime there.
I’m just curious… who has packages delivered to their doorstep and leaves them out all night? That’s just asking for it like leaving packages in plain sight in your car parked in a parking structure. Sorry for being insensitive but that’s just ignoring the constant warnings.
“ultra conservative” … LOL!
More like a common sense realist. NOT a Jerry Brown Kool Aid drinker…
Nowadays we have this thing called email. And in relation to that there’s this thing called “tracking.” How is it packages are delivered without notification? If it’s USPS you are notified almost immediately that your package has been delivered. UPS tells you ahead of time that your package is arriving the next day. If you’re expecting packages, don’t allow them to sit there overnight. And OP said same thing happened last year? Uh . . .duh.
If the same exact thing happened to these people last Christmas, there is no good reason they should have left packages out overnight. That’s what tracking and notifications are for. Additionally, if people are going to be out of town, they can easily put a Hold on their mail and deliveries. This is just silly.