Using inside info, iPhone thieves arrive at your house right after FedEx

It baffles me that "delivering" packages like this is a standard practice over there. I'm in the EU, and if I'm not home by the time the delivery is attempted, the company would call and ask when is a good time to try again, or would leave the thing to be collected at an office.

We UPS drivers at least get signatures for the damn things. Who would have thought the delivery drivers getting paid shitty wages would be working with thieves to augment their wages lmao

In the UK you’re not getting a phone delivered to your house and left without providing a pin to the delivery driver.

I’m all for leaving low value items outside but phones and stuff, come on people.

Why do package delivery companies in the United States seem to just leave the package on the doorstep when the person isn't home. That seems like such an obviously stupid thing to do.

Pretty much everywhere else the package delivery companies would either take the product back with them and deliver it on another day or contact the person via the contact details they have and request a safe place to leave it. Most delivery companies will let you specify this when you make the order.

Or if it's not bin day they can just put it in the recycling bin.

Aren't these things trackable? Don't phones have an IMEI and can't they be remote-bricked if stolen?

I mean, police don't care, but Apple could render these useless if they wanted to.

Generally, phone delivery requires the residents signature at the time of delivery. At least that has been the case with T-Mobile and Verizon in my experience. Does AT&T not require signature?

Thinking when the "leaving packages before door" will stop (by shops refusing to send it that way due to cost related to stealing)

This just happened to a friend of mine on Wednesday. Had a new phone from AT&T delivered, and was almost immediately taken from their porch. Their doorbell camera caught both the delivery and the theft.

PSA. Send stuff to your local post office and then go pick it up.

And then there's Kansas City...

I wonder if this is similar to when weev & Goatse Security "hacked" AT&T by discovering that their website for managing iPad accounts was so poorly designed that you could just change the account number in the website's URL to access other people's accounts.

Bring back chopping off hands for thieves.