{"id":27510,"date":"2019-10-26T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27510"},"modified":"2019-10-26T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T16:07:09","slug":"should-tennessee-create-specific-porch-pirate-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/10\/26\/should-tennessee-create-specific-porch-pirate-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Tennessee create specific porch pirate laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wbir.com\/embeds\/video\/51-ccbcd6d0-745d-4b4e-9f6b-b60fac6a80e7\/iframe\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/243495\/period-when-us-consumers-began-shopping-for-the-holiday-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research found last year that more than 30% of consumers<\/a>\u00a0started their holiday shopping before the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>This year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marketingland.com\/ready-for-the-holidays-1-in-5-us-consumers-starts-holiday-shopping-in-october-or-earlier-263932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one in five shoppers said<\/a>\u00a0they were starting in October or earlier, according to a Facebook survey.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those packages left on doorsteps are susceptible to theft. Texas has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbir.com\/article\/news\/attention-porch-pirates-new-texas-law-makes-it-a-felony-to-steal-packages-starting-sept-1\/285-e47b421c-e896-4123-82a4-308422d43325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new law<\/a>\u00a0that targets porch pirates with a felony charge, but in Tennessee, that theft is still a misdemeanor for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The law&#8217;s going to have to continue to evolve,&#8221; said attorney T. Scott Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows 11 million homeowners had a package stolen in 2016. That number has been on the rise since and so has the increase in porch pirates.<\/p>\n<p>During the holiday season last year, the United States Postal Service delivered around 15 billion pieces of mail and 900 million packages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you actually take something from a mailbox it by definition is a federal crime,&#8221; said Jones.<\/p>\n<p>He said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/1708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal law only covers theft from mail carried by USPS resulting in a federal theft related felony. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whereas if it&#8217;s a package from other carriers like UPS, FedEx, it doesn&#8217;t rise to the level of a federal crime,&#8221; he said. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbir.com\/article\/news\/crime\/should-tennessee-create-specific-porch-pirate-laws\/51-30981d20-ce2a-49f2-bb6d-c2b329bcab35\">WBIR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21683\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Porch-Pirates1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Porch-Pirates1.jpg 436w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Porch-Pirates1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Porch-Pirates1-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2014\u00a0Research found last year that more than 30% of consumers\u00a0started their holiday shopping before the end of October. This year,\u00a0one in five shoppers said\u00a0they were starting in October or earlier, according to a Facebook survey. Many of those packages left on doorsteps are susceptible to theft. Texas has a\u00a0new law\u00a0that targets porch pirates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27512,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27510\/revisions\/27512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}