Most days I receive zero packages. Two is so extravagant as to almost not be dull.

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    15 hours ago

    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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    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.

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      17 hours ago

      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

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      21 hours ago

      Delivery services try to get the lowest size file they can, since millions of packages are delivered every day.

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      2 days ago

      I can’t take credit for it. It was the picture in the delivery notification email from UPS.

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          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.

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    2 days ago

    Two packages. Lots of stuff on the porch. Look at that attractive doormat. Hardly dull at all

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      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.

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    23 hours ago

    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.

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      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.

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        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.