{"id":27708,"date":"2019-11-30T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27708"},"modified":"2019-11-30T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T16:25:06","slug":"bay-area-is-ranked-as-the-number-one-place-in-the-country-for-porch-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/11\/30\/bay-area-is-ranked-as-the-number-one-place-in-the-country-for-porch-thefts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area is ranked as the number one place in the country for porch thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=5726395\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; There was a time when business owner Maryo Mogannam thought his postal service shop, The Postal Chase, would become irrelevant as online sales became more popular. But, to his surprise, he&#8217;s had to expand instead, as more and more of his customers needed a safe place to have their packages delivered.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">&#8220;My biggest customers live within a block and a half from here, some of them work from home,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">But, many complained that their deliveries were being left on the porch with no regard for security.<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">&#8220;Average porch pirate in the 90s would have to cruise three or four blocks for one or two packages. Now, you cruise down one block, you probably have five or six maybe ten opportunities,&#8221; he said.<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">As Cyber Monday sales continue to grow every year, incidents of package theft are also on the rise. According to a recent report by SafeWise, a security solutions company, 26 million Americans fell victim to porch pirates just in 2017.<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">Here are the top ten metros where porch pirates struck most:<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">1. San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">2. Salt Lake City<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">3. Portland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">4. Baltimore<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">5. Seattle-Tacoma<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">6. Chicago<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">7. Austin<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">8. Denver<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">9. Los Angeles<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">10. Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/bay-area-most-targeted-by-porch-thieves-police-warn-ahead-of-cyber-monday-\/5726232\/\">ABC News<\/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>SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; There was a time when business owner Maryo Mogannam thought his postal service shop, The Postal Chase, would become irrelevant as online sales became more popular. But, to his surprise, he&#8217;s had to expand instead, as more and more of his customers needed a safe place to have their packages delivered. 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