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Beware - thieves following UPS and FedEx trucks
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It seems that some low life thugs are into a lucrative business - following UPS and FedEx trucks and scooping up packages left on door steps, usually within seconds of the truck leaving ! "I was shocked," she said. "I can't believe someone would follow the UPS guy and go up and down the street like it's their own personal shopping store and take everything." [ link to www.click2houston.com] very sad...this is how things began to fall apart in south america when the economic crisis of the 1970s and 80s destroyed the working class Once a group of people realize they can just take stuff that before people took for granted were safe, such as packages...once trust breaks down that way, it is nearly impossible to get that genie back in the bottle once a generation grows up watching their older brothers and parents successfully living off theft of this kind, the problem becomes entrenched Yep. The idea of ordering valuable merchandise and having it delivered to your home reliably and without anyone fucking with it is very much a first world concept. As such, it is actually a rarity in the world. In South America, someone earlier on in the delivery chain would steal whatever you ordered long before it ever got to the actual delivery guy. true...I have family in Brazil. We used to send them presents and very often the box would be sliced open and the contents stolen before the box or envelope ever reached their home a producer I worked with marveled at our newspaper vending machines, something we take for granted...he said back home you couldn't have something like that because if someone put a quarter in and opened the machine they would swipe the whole stack of papers and then sell them on the corner No Joke. Just a month or two again a local corner store owner got caught taking all the papers out of the vending machine from the corner, then selling the papers in store. guess what, he's a South American immigrant. Turns out he'd been dong it long enough to make an estimated $4,000. That's a lot and a long time. Daily paper is 75cents here.
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