Porch Piracy Increases Around the Holidays

With an increase in online shopping, many people are having packages delivered to their front door.

This makes them more susceptible to theft.

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But-- around the holidays the chance of a package being stolen from your front porch is even more likely.

Safety dot com reports an expected 27 percent increase in stolen packages this holiday season.

And pemco insurance agrees that porch pirates definitely won't be taking any breaks during the next few days.

There was a recent survey that was done that showed nearly 4 in 10 people say that they've had a package stolen off their porch at least once so i think it's definitely a problem that it happening, it's probably going to continue to happen.

Pemco insurance advises remote shoppers to ask for an out-of-sight delivery option.

It also offers a list of other tips to keep your shipments safe from pirates.

For more information about how to protect your door step deliveries stay tuned for newswatch 12 at 5.

And speaking of package theft --- the grants pass department of public safety needs your help finding this person.

It says his vehicle is related to mail theft that occurred yesterday.

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