we try our best to only have packages delivered on days we are home.
These guys are so brazen, you would not only need to be home but be sitting on the porch waiting for the delivery man (or woman) so you could take it inside as soon as it arrived.
OR you could have delivery notifications set up so that as soon as it is scanned as delivered you get a notification either via text or in the app of the delivery method. You can also go in to the fedex and ups app both and change the delivery date so if say you are going to be home Thursday but the package is suppose to come Wednesday you can change it to come Thursday when you are there. Most people don't live in a dungeon so when vehicles pull in to their drive they hear them. Not to mention the people who have cameras and would also be notified that someone had entered their property. All kinds of ways to know a package has arrived without sitting on the porch.
Thanks guys, this is all good advice and commentary in general, but very little of it applies to me in this case.
In this case, I
was home when the delivery was made.
I was sitting in my bedroom, which is
immediately on the other side of the front wall of my house - literally less than ten feet away from my front porch.
I
have delivery notifications set up by text message and when I got the notification (at 1:49 p.m.) I
immediately got up and went to the front door to pick up my package. Problem is that the notification didn't come through on my phone until almost four hours after the actual delivery at 10:04 a.m.
While I don't live in a dungeon - I do live on a very busy street with
a lot of vehicular traffic. Our "driveway" is less than a single car length long that you cannot pull into and park - it is basically just the sidewalk apron in front of our garage door and most of the houses on our street just parallel park their cars on the street. We are a two car family and my wife gets the garage. So with
all of the traffic going by - there is no open and obvious notice of a delivery coming to our door -
unless the delivery person rings the doorbell.
Which brings me back full circle. I think that a doorbell camera is probably my only solution in this case. I have looked into them in the past, but hadn't wanted to spend the money for one. But if I want to continue getting deliveries at home, I may have to. The last time I seriously considered it was several years ago when there was an apparent shootout right outside my front door and the perps left several bullet casings and one live bullet in that same area where my package was recently stolen...
The
GOOD news is that Amazon just came through and credited my account for the stolen package purchase last night.