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photomankc:

--- Quote from: radioactive on December 19, 2018, 12:59:28 am ---I admit that the video is funny and seems *just* at first glance.  I hope it doesn't backfire though.  Pranks like this can always go wrong.  First, I have to ask where does this guy live?  I might believe a single instance of theft, but multiple thefts and recoveries?  Don't know... seems kinda youtube-world-only to me.  What if the thief was a mother with newborn in the passenger seat?  If people really are stealing packages all over the place, I understand the concept.  In any case, I think this idea and similar could go wrong and harm innocent people if they become widespread.

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This is not aimed only at your statement....

this is the mindset that has made society more and more intolerable as time goes on.  This hand-wringing worry for the safety of criminals.  There really isn't a legitimate reason for a mother to be snatching packages from the porches of people's homes and opening them in her car. Nor is there any reason the law should allow her to expect that situation to be one that is safe for her child.  If she opens it and an angry wolverine emerges, then the ONLY person responsible for injury to herself or her child is her.

It's astonishing to stand back and look at where we really are today.  Just listened to my wife tell a tale of a school SRO that is now fighting a complaint filed against him for cuffing a student after they threatened to attack another student in the office, flung themselves into the deputy multiple times screaming, and the last time with a running start.  Who is the mother, local press, and several parents now upset with?  The officer that cuffed the little @#$^ after being rammed 4 or 5 times and warning the kid to stop it.  I mean the kids are close to discovering that there *really* is not much anymore that can be done to them by litigation-fearing staff.  Same with shoplifters and other thieves.  They are just brazen because there are no consequences.  All around it's the same.  Good people being told they have to tiptoe around the worthless thieves because the thief might get a splinter. 

This package theft behavior is 100% ignored by police and authorities.  You can have the face, address, and GPS data to back it all up and they will still tell you to pound-sand.   There is currently absolutely no deterrence to doing this even if it's on video.  I order stuff and have deliveries multiple times per month.  I can't take off work to pick up all the packages and my shipping department at work would have a fit if people were using them to deliver personal packages.  It's 10,000 person campus.  They would be swamped if even 10% did that.  I'm not sure what the answer here is.  Maybe some type of secure container people can install at home to allow delivery services to drop off securely (reasonably) without just leaving things on the porch?  My regular UPS/DHL folks tend to try and keep the package out-of-sight, but once the holidays hit and the extra hands come on I'm lucky if they only toss it from halfway down the driveway onto the porch.
LaserSteve:
Package theft is getting rampant.  Even in our nice safe rural area, The post office now sends me a scan of my expected mail, and an email  the day it is to arrive.

My new "federally mandated" secure Ohio drivers license was stolen out of the mail. Really dumb idea to mail them without signature required or tracking. . Due to the feds DHS mandate, they all have to be printed at one central secure printer instead of on site at the DMV, the way it used to be. Now they hand you a laserprinted  8.5x11 piece of paper at the DMV as your temporary license.

As for the missing one, I  Had to have another one issued, took 21 days. Had it sent to work.   Just got it.

OH, BTW, a Biometric  US Passport is not good enough to be considered Photo ID at the  Ohio DMV.  It gets me on Airbases and into National Labs, but Noooo...  Not at the DMV.  Instread bring a phone bill, a trash bill, or car insurance card as proof of residence.

Please tell me how this IMPROVES security?

BTW, DHL stands for  DOESNT HANDLE LASERS. My friend has video of them dropping his crated laser off a plane.

Steve






photomankc:

--- Quote from: timgiles on December 19, 2018, 10:28:59 am ---I happened to watch this yesterday and agree that it is a great design.

I also read that amazon is teaming up with local police across the US to drop delivery fake packages with trackers inside them to catch these criminals.

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That's good.  Their business model more or less depends on being able to *quickly* deliver packages to homes while people are out, and the vast majority of homes are empty in the day time.  Fast delivery and then 2 days of "We missed you" back-and-forth ruins it's effectiveness.  That's a dang big business here.  The police just shrugging and saying... "too bad, don't order online goods, or just accept them getting stolen" is not good for that and it's spawning an army of these people because they know there is currently effectively zero risk in doing it.
photomankc:

--- Quote from: LaserSteve on December 19, 2018, 03:58:37 pm ---OH, BTW, a Biometric  US Passport is not good enough to be considered Photo ID at the  Ohio DMV.  It gets me on Airbases and into National Labs, but Noooo...  Not at the DMV.  Instread bring a phone bill, a trash bill, or car insurance card as proof of residence.

Please tell me how this IMPROVES security?

BTW, DHL stands for  DOESNT HANDLE LASERS. My friend has video of them dropping his crated laser off a plane.

Steve

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Like most laws, it doesn't have to make sense.  You just have to do it.   |O
Tom45:

--- Quote from: LaserSteve on December 19, 2018, 03:58:37 pm ---
OH, BTW, a Biometric  US Passport is not good enough to be considered Photo ID at the  Ohio DMV.  It gets me on Airbases and into National Labs, but Noooo...  Not at the DMV.  Instread bring a phone bill, a trash bill, or car insurance card as proof of residence.

Please tell me how this IMPROVES security?

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This actually does make sense. The Passport is good evidence of who you are, but it says nothing about where you live. Ohio's DMV rightly wants to limit Ohio driver's licenses to verified Ohio residents.
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