Packages Headed to Customers in Austin at Greatest Risk from Porch Pirates in 2018

Videos of porch pirates stealing packages have become popular on social media and the nightly news, which highlight the scope of the problem.With the holiday shopping season well underway, a new report by SafeWise looks at the best and worst cities when it comes to package theft during this time of year.The report is a timely one because this is when FedEx, UPS, and the USPS, as well as other carriers, make the highest number of deliveries. In 2017, this amounted to more than two billion packages during the holiday shopping season.Increasingly, small businesses are responsible for a growing number of packages which are being delivered during the holidays. For business owners who want to keep their ecommerce customers happy, it means finding solutions to get the packages to the rightful owner and not porch pirates.