Porch piracy is on the rise, hitting 260 million packages in 2022
December 19, 2022
According to this year’s report from SafeWise, porch pirates nabbed an estimated $195 billion worth of merchandise from outside homes in 2022. That amounted to 260 million packages, up from 210 million last year. SafeWise reports that the top U.S. metro markets for porch piracy were: the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle/Tacoma, Austin, Hartford/New Haven and the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto area of California.
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