Porch piracy is on the rise, with 43 percent of American consumers surveyed saying they had an ecommerce delivery pilfered from their front porch in 2020, according to a recent report.<\/p>\n
C+R Research asked 2,000 self-reporting shoppers about delivery theft in November 2020. Some 58 percent of the respondents resided in single-family dwellings, 29 percent lived in apartments, and condos or other living arrangements made up the balance.<\/p>\n
The survey was conducted on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, so the results might not be as accurate as a phone survey, other online survey tools, or a review of retailer data, given that Mechanical Turk respondents are paid and more likely to use Amazon and Amazon Prime than U.S. consumers generally. Nonetheless, the survey may be an indicator of a growing problem.<\/p>\n
C+R has used a similar questionnaire for the past few years, and the reports of delivery theft have risen. In 2018, 31 percent of the shoppers who C+R surveyed reported having at least one package stolen as it lay waiting outside of their front door. In 2019, that percentage had risen to 36 percent, and, as mentioned above, in 2020 43 percent of folks asked said a crook had taken a package from their front step.<\/p>\n