90,000 NYC Packages Get Stolen… Every Day 

Stealing mail from the usps is a felony. They need to be prosecuted as such. If nothing is happening to them then it goes to show just how lawless nyc is sadly.

When I was little we had these places called stores. We also had people whose job it was to arrest criminals. The criminals would be locked up in a place called jail.

We have a package room and a doorman that takes care of everything... I'm so thankful for it... it's a must in today's society....

”The City has a new plan..” is always a beginning of something that ranges from ”not-gonna-work” to ”total disaster”! -E.K.

I live in a wonderful rural area. If packages get delivered to the wrong address we’ll take it to right address.

I had packages stolen at my last apartment, including cookies sent by my mom. Now, I have a doorman with a package room & there’s no way I’m giving that up in this city.

It the old days - 20-40 years ago in NYC, the Post Office, UPS, would never leave a package on your door step. Even if you were home, they wouldn't deliver, they just usually did a drive by and claimed you weren't home.

We had a problem with porch pirates in our neighborhood in Louisiana December 2020. Apparently it was a ring of people working together because we began keeping all the Amazon and Walmart boxes to empty litter boxes and/or pop scooper mess then taping up the box and putting it on our porches!!! Viola' I love community Facebook pages to keep things in an organized manner. LOL

Something I love about this channel is he is showing everyone the problems that we can build businesses around creating solutions for. Everyone says they want to get rich but who will take the action?

We live in Brooklyn. My mother's package got stolen a few months ago. She informed Amazon. In a few weeks she received a fine notice - the box with her name and address had been found in Staten Island and she was blamed for throwing it away on the street 🤣🤣🤣

Cash- you are KILLING IT!! You have become indispensable for what's up in NYC. I appreciate you and all your efforts- your research, humanity, even-handedness is a breath of fresh air. Please keep up the great work and know that you are doing a better job at covering NYC than all the local channels and newspapers. Keep it up!!

New Yorker in Queens here. It's bad, been bad for years. I always run down and grab my stuff as soon as I get the notification it's delivered. I've had about 20 packages stolen in 5 years.

FedEx driver here:. If you live in an apartment bldg, please have your apt # on the pkg, because otherwise we will not deliver it or will just leave it in the lobby.

My daughter lived in a brand new huge apartment complex. All packages were delivered to the office. They were then put in lockers and the key was put in your mailbox. It's a win win for delivery drivers as they only had to stop once for 500 apartments.

I don’t even live in NYC and yet I watch all your videos. Keep up the good content! Your journalism is on point!

Great Ideal. How about sending these criminals to prison for about five years and getting rid of the no cash bail system?

I thought this was a federal crime?!? Now its almost not even a crime at all! Wtf

Lockers are fantastic, I love delivering to them too. As long as the penalties are lenient, it’s not going to stop.

"They're not robbing the trucks, not yet anyway" spoken like a New Yorker 😂

Mayor Adams' plan is working out wonderfully!

Once you realize there is a theft problem in your building either dont have things delivered to your address or move. Even some home owners have these problems.

*Illegal activity occurs. NYC: "we need not enforce existing laws that worked for decades. Instead, we need to create more laws that give politicians more power while stripping law enforcement of any, be more lenient with those who violate these laws, and spend more money". It'll work this time guys. The managerial class says so.

The person in the Amazon vest stealing packages probably stole the vest as well!!

We have those since 2001 in Germany by DHL. Meanwhile there are more than 12000 nation wider. The are called DHL Packstation. You can receive your packages but you also can send packages.

The problem is the thieves.

Laughed so hard when the postal lockers at a store is a new thing, in Finland we got these like 10+ years ago. The glamour of the US seems to be only in movies.

Kinda a sad state to see how bad things are now over the US. I lived in Australia and I have yet to encounter package theft. The most happened here (for me) was my package getting swapped by something else. And alot of the more expensive packages like TV, mobiles phone or the like requires a signature to get them otherwise you get an email and a note in your mailbox to say you have a package and require you to pick them up from your closest post shop

Blows me away that people have packages dropped on their doorstep in a place like NYC. I live in a nice suburb in southern California, and I get almost all my packages worth anything delivered to my workplace.

The amount of money just to address dishonest people... living would probably cost half as much if people were honest, not to mention the grief.

We have been using those electric lockers in London for years. Some companies don't use them but they are great. We also have a system where packages can be left at our local stores if we are not home and we can go and collect it once it's delivered

Mail theft is up there, too. Someone redirected my mortgage check and rewrote it to themselves. Seven months later, I'm still waiting for a reimbursement from my bank. I have packages sent to my job.

Bro is doing way better reporting than news media outlets. Salute ❤🎉

Legend has it Cash Jordan has the forbidden skeleton key to every apartment complex in New York.

The vigilantes will eventually end this. Don’t steal packages kids. Your tombstone may read, “Died trying to steal a nose hair trimmer”.

NYC truly is a paradise!

As a disabled person who needs to receive my mail at my home because leaving my home is difficult for me, these go lockers would have absolutely zero use for me. This isn’t helpful for disabled people. Post office needs to fix this for the many of us who can’t utilize these go lockers.

The delivery person stealing is crazy 😂

The doorman stepping out for lunch ...(remembering the Seinfeld episode, when Jerry had a tift with a doorman from a different building ha ha)

Parcel lockers have been a staple in Poland for like nearly a decade now, so its a little funny to see some people only now getting them

Think this through...if you make it harder for criminals to steal one way (e.g. go lockers)...what do you think they are going to do next, work at McDonalds? No, they will figure out what the next low hanging fruit is...this is a solvable problem, by punishing criminals, anything else just shifts the crime around. Insane that instead of catching/punishing crime (root cause), we are trying to find ways to address the symptoms.

If you have a neighbor that you know works from home, and is home everyday, and you're on good terms with them, you could ask them to keep an eye out for the package, and grab it when it's delivered, then grab it from them once you get home from work. My dad actually does that for some of his next-door neighbors.

Love the new journalism videos man

Cash, I think you should have two channels. One for showing apartments, and one for NYC goings on.

Thank you for bringing these quality of life issues in NYC to attention. 🙏

90k stolen packages per day is insane. I was already wary of sending stuff to NYC, now i may cancel orders from NYC

Your investigative reporting is SUPERB! I love your new content! Very informative.😊 You were born for this!

The one thing contributing to mass stolen parcels is the that the NO person delivering parcels ever rings or knocks upon delivery. They just drop and go, not bothering to alert customers inside to come get their parcel.

The rusted mailbox made me laugh.😅😅😅

It's shocking to see how old and raggedy NYC is, those mail boxes are all rust...you'd think a city full of rich celebs and big tech companies would be in pristine condition.

I live in Japan and have this locker in my building! Works great! I suggest you keep an eye behind you while you get the package in NYC though.

Cash- Great coverage. Well done. What an important topic. Thanks so very much. ☮️👏👏👏👏

I purposely stay at home when i have an expensive package in transit!

From home delivery to GO lockers, next thing you know people will go back to stores and just buy it

Cash! I LOVE your videos and loved your apartment videos, and I'm glad you are getting so many more views with these provocative news pieces. They are SO GOOD and you're SO TALENTED. AND...Can I PLEASE ASK YOU to make a video that is POSITIVE!!! New York also attracts some of the most creative artists in all areas and there are so many acts of kindness that I experienced when I lived in New York. can you post an UPBEAT STORY please! I miss your sense of HUMOR!!! Blessings

I live in a apartment complex that requires a "special" key to get into the lobby. I've had more than 1 of my packages go missing. Each time I made a huge stink about it, with the property manager and post office, my packages were returned to me. Word got around that l get notifications when a package I ordered has been delivered. It has cut way down on the number of packages that go missing, because other tenants have opted to be notified when their packages have been delivered.

When ATM's first came out, there was a two step theft process: ATM hands money to user, user hands money over to person with gun waiting outside.

The video of the prius emptying the drop box, that is efficiency at its finest

The USPS needs a place where it can deliver mail into locked storage bins in a centralized location within an apartment....... you could even call it a "Mailroom".

I can always count on you to remind me of how much of a cesspool NYC is 😊

Our post carrier in Australia has had these lockers as an option for collection for a few years. They're great. The only downside is they're not widespread. My apartment building also has a private one. So convenient knowing your package is safely locked up until you get home. Great idea installing in delis and convenience stores too.

Latvia has pick up terminals like that all over the coutnry for easy sending and receiving of packages. Including from Amazon. Quite honestly I am amazed how behind USA is sometimes at the most random of things

I live in rural Minnesota. I had a package stolen last year. I called UPS and they stated, people FOLLOW the t Ruck and steal packages. My package wasn't outside my BACK door more than a half an hour! We gave our driver instructions where to put the package and we've only got one driver. No Amazon trucks come to our town.

I like your new videos more than touring the apartments. I don’t live there, but I like this type of content

Cash, I laughed OUT LOUD at 'enterprising hooligan'. lmao 😂 Keep up the great work!

The GO lockers look like a good idea. 👍🏻 When I lived in apartments many years ago, all the packages went to the office. There were no packages left on doorsteps, just a note on your door. 🚪📦

Those lockers are in a lot of apartment complexes out here in the pacific northwest, but large packages would just be left out in front, and if residents don't pick up their packages and Amazon/UPS run out of empty lockers, they get stacked up in front of the lockers. NY landlords could probably retrofit some basement space for parcel lockers, but that might lead to rent spikes.

I live in a building, and my neighbors will take your packages. So I try to have my packages delivered on my days off, and I sit in my car and wait for the delivery man to come, because my Windows are facing the back of the building. (and, because I may be waiting for a long time, I bring snacks and drinks, and my tablet and phone. Now I'm relaxed, and safe from the elements). I also have my packages delivered to a hub locker, so I can pick them up from there. It's a sad time we live in when no one respects each others property.

I like the concept of the ‘Go Lockers’ in Bodegas.. Think about it - the concept of CVS is that when you go there to pick up a perscription, you can also pick up essentials.. Now you can get a package & also a sandwich, etc.. I can see how Bodegas owners are lovin’ the potential for new customers..

Ahh yes.... Mr. Cash to provide me with more news directly from the streets of Gotham. Godspeed good man 🤝🏽🍻

here in the Netherlands.. almost if not every delivery company does not allow porch dropoff. either your home, you granted recieving rights to a neighbor or they deliver the package to a local store that is also a Dropoff point where you can pick up your package. for xxl packages like TV's and washing machines the dropoff one isnt an option and you or someone just has to be home to recieve them.

Parcel lockers are gold. I live in Poland and everything started in 2009 with firm called Inpost. Their lockers changed whole delivery system here and right now they have more than 20 000 spots with their "paczkomaty" in Poland and they are expanding to other countries like France, UK, Spain and more. Other firms like DHL, DPD etc. had to make their own parcel lockers to keep up with trend. We also have something called "parcel spots". Polish 7-Eleven called "Żabka" and many small local shops are this "parcel spots" were you can pick up your packages or send something without problem. Those 2 things are super convenient and they are cuting possibility of packages being stolen drastically.

You are truly the ambassador of goodwill and tourism for NYC!😂

I love this channel, Cash. You are so packed with information and cover pros/cons of every situation. I live in Illinois but love the big apple@

I dont live in new york but I love this channel you make everything about this so fun to learn

In my country, the packages are not just left at the doorsteps. The delivery guy delivers it to the person at the mentioned address upon a successful OTP based verification. Also most of the delivery partners provide choice to select the day and time of delivery as per our convenience and availability.

In my building, if someone is coming in, and sees packages in the front vestibule area (accessible from the street), that person always brings them into the inner lobby (inside of the locked front interior building door), so that they remain safe (or at least safer) until the recipient arrives home and collects them. We all do it for one-another, just whomever happens to be coming in and sees something on the outside steps, and apparently it is a good system. In the 32 years I've lived in that building, I've never had a package stolen.

I live in a small town in Pennsylvania and package theft is a huge problem even here, I wish they would put these secured package facilities in our shops!

Oh man, my building front door is locked and lines right up to the sidewalk and bus stop. Nowhere to put packages, it's hard here. Criminals done been robbing postal workers in my city for at least a couple years now. They're stealing all their keys, too

You can't have porch pirates simply by stopping leaving packages out on the porch. Over here in the Netherlands, packages are delivered personally to you. If you're not at home, your package is either left with a neighbour, brought to a pickup point (within a store usually or sometimes a post office) or offered to you again the next day. Leaving packages outside is basically unheard of over here. What's more, if a delivery person *did* leave a package outside and it gets stolen, the delivery company will have to pay for it as the sender then has a legitimate claim against them -- leaving a package outside is *not* considered as delivered over here. Also, our national mail service PostNL has lockers all over the country where you can chose to have your package deliverd to. I know DHL has some of those lockers too over here. I usually have my packages delived to an in-store PostNL pickup point in a hardware store close to me, after work I can then easily pickup my packages. :)

Like his commentary is why I watch . Born and raised NEW YORK BUT EFF NEW YORK . Only reason why I watch is his commentary and flow .

Not sure about the lockers but one tip is to get to know your neighborhoods and determine one who could hold your packages. Give them a tip for holding particularly valuable ones. Other options are to ask vendors to have the package held at the post office or signed for delivery. This is particularly good idea and reason to use USPS. Finally when selecting an apartment do find one which a) has a locked door to the vestibule where mail may be left and if it takes additional time such as an apartment building with a courtyard which requires one going through a corridor to get to the courtyard that is a deterrent as most package thieves want to be able to simply grab and go b) is away from busy commercial avenues. However, getting to know your neighborhoods so that you can trust one of them to watch for your package (and vice a versa) is very helpful in reducing the chance of theft along with having any packages held at the post office - especially if you are going to be away a few days.

In the Netherlands we have the same system with the lockers as you. Packages that are delivered at the door are almost never just left there except when you ask for it yourself. There is either a second delivering or the package is brought to a shop where you can collect your package yourself. In general you can (if the sender gives you this possibility) choose for: -delivery to your door -delivery to a store that has a contract with the delivering company -delivery to storage locker Problem is that the storage lockers are often full (not enough capacity is the main reason). I'm surprised that you have your packages just left in front of your doorstep. Even I myself, living in an apartment, will go apeshit when the package is just left outside in the hall. Not all neighbours are too trustworthy over here as in the States I guess ...

here in china mail kept coming during chinese new year. every community has a place where packages get dropped off. you get texted a number , you get your mail, scan and leave. it's al honor system. during CNY they just left it open with zero workers. i'm from nyc and man it just seems like such a backward and broken place compared to here.

In spain, when you order something online, the delivery person has to give it to you in person, sometimes even requiring your signature. If you're not available, they take the package back to their office and try again another day

What a great place to live!

Apartment buildings and complexes have the package lockers, not just from Amazon, but a few other companies have also popped up. Every building in my neighborhood has an Amazon locker, and there are a few in other public places like at the nearest grocery store and 7/11.

People need to be aware and on their toes. I live in a place with no doorman, ANYONE can walk up ring ANY bell and say they are "Amazon" and be let in. This is how many things got stolen - - as neighbors we banded together and agreed DO NOT BUZZ anyone in if its not your guest.

How about harsh penalties for criminals?

I have ALWAYS hated thieves 🤬🤬🤬

The lockers are an awesome thing ..I live in a small building,and since I live in the ground floor,I watch out for the packages,placing the boxes in front of the tenants door ...my landlord is going to put a camera soon..since i'm retired,I try to help keep the building safe ...we lock the doors after 11pm,( in case of emergency,I open the door for police, Ambulance)& the lock is opened after 5am

And they are legally protected from physical retaliation during the theft.

This is a modern "Mailboxes Etc.". Also Amazon has had these in Home Depot LIC for a few years.

When I see things like this happening in big cities, I’m grateful that I live in a small town.

I think I should start ordering laxative laced foods to my door step.

I'm grateful I have good neighbors, we all bring in packages if we see them and put them in a safe space in the lobby. Talking to your neighbors is a great way to combat this because chances are they're experiencing the same thing

Amazon delivery walker here, I used to work in the Manhattan area and there was this time a guy from my truck got all his packages stolen while he was delivering into a building, it was like 50 packages and stuff like that happens all the time

Dang, New Yorkers just can't seem to catch a break

I'm amazed more people aren't leaving NYC. This is no way to live. I know it's bad everywhere but this is the pits.

I'm not in NYC but my apartment complex does use the amazon locker system and non-amazon delivery like FedEx, UPS etc. can also deliver to it. It's nice.

Up in Canada, we have a cool thing where you can get a pretend-PO box at the post office. It gets a unique number for people to address it to, and they'll just hold the packages you get and email you about them. Free of charge! :)