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Posted on September 30, 2024 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

PUBLIC DEFENDER

By Brian Livingston

With our craze for same-day deliveries, package theft has soared; it cost online shoppers $13 billion in 2023 in the United States alone, according to a Capital One Shopping report.

That’s 119 million stolen packages in the past year, the contents of which averaged $112.30 per parcel. One in seven Americans lost packages in this way, studies show.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.40.0, 2024-09-30).

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