{"id":28267,"date":"2020-02-26T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28267"},"modified":"2020-02-26T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:47:48","slug":"porch-pirates-could-face-5-years-in-jail-if-new-bill-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/02\/26\/porch-pirates-could-face-5-years-in-jail-if-new-bill-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Porch pirates could face 5 years in jail if new bill passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.11alive.com\/embeds\/video\/85-69e3324c-9d28-4caa-879a-da242925143d\/iframe\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA \u2014 It happens every day &#8211; and it seems to be happening more an more as our shopping habits change. Thieves stealing your package right off your front porch.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study in the New York Times, 1.7 million packages are stolen or go missing every day.<\/p>\n<p>Even with technology, such as Ring cameras, the thieves don&#8217;t seem to care.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases in Georgia, porch piracy is only a misdemeanor for two reasons. First, the packages they are stealing usually don&#8217;t value more than $500. The other reason is that the thieves are not technically stealing from the United States Postal Service, but instead private delivery services &#8211; FedEx, UPS, Amazon &#8211; that don&#8217;t fall under federal protection.<\/p>\n<p>Stealing packages is typically covered under the state&#8217;s &#8220;theft by taking&#8221; statute, a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>Help could be on the way, and a new bill proposed by State Rep. Bonnie Rich (R-Suwanee) could make thieves think twice about stealing your package &#8211; no matter what the value is. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/local\/porch-pirates-could-face-5-years-in-jail-if-new-bill-passes\/85-a61b1443-a56e-4b97-9f0e-043957f38e59\">11 Alive Atlanta<\/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>ATLANTA \u2014 It happens every day &#8211; and it seems to be happening more an more as our shopping habits change. Thieves stealing your package right off your front porch. According to a study in the New York Times, 1.7 million packages are stolen or go missing every day. Even with technology, such as Ring [&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-28267","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\/28267","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=28267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28268,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28267\/revisions\/28268"}],"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=28267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}