Security Guides
Practical, step-by-step advice to help you prevent package theft, improve your delivery setup, and respond when a package goes missing.
Follow our framework—Assess → Direct → Deter → Detect → Secure → Respond—or go straight to the section that addresses your current problem.
Start Here: Check Your Porch Security in 15 Minutes
Not sure which security improvements your home actually needs? Take the free 15-Minute Porch & Package Security Checkup to identify package-theft weak spots, calculate your risk score, and choose your three highest-priority improvements.
Package already missing? Go to the recovery guides before reviewing prevention upgrades.
Assess: Find the Weak Points
Start by understanding where deliveries become exposed and which improvements fit your home and routine.
Ultimate Porch Pirate Prevention Guide
Explore how delivery habits, package placement, monitoring, and physical protection work together.
Home Delivery Security Checklist
Review your delivery area, notifications, camera coverage, lighting, and response readiness to identify practical next steps.
DIY Home Security Setup Guide
Build a practical home security setup focused on package protection, visibility, and everyday use.
Direct: Make the Delivery Location Clear
Choose a workable drop-off point and help drivers recognize where packages should go.
Secure Package Delivery Guide
Plan a safer drop-off location, coordinate delivery timing, and create a backup when the usual arrangement will not work.
Package Delivery Instructions: What to Write for Amazon, UPS, FedEx & USPS
Use clear wording examples and learn where to enter instructions for the carrier handling your delivery.
How to Get Delivery Drivers to Use Your Package Delivery Box
Check placement, access, labeling, and carrier instructions, then test whether your box works across actual deliveries.
Deter: Improve Visibility Around the Delivery Area
Use lighting and visible security cues as part of a practical protection plan.
Motion Lighting for Porch Security
Explore how lighting can improve visibility around entryways, walkways, and delivery locations after dark.
Security Signs to Deter Porch Pirates
Learn where signs and camera warnings can support real security measures and where their limitations matter.
Detect: See the Package and Its Approach
Make monitoring useful by checking what your camera can actually see and which alerts you can act on.
Security Camera Placement Guide
Review camera positions for coverage of your porch, driveway, walkway, and delivery drop-off area.
Smart Doorbells for Package Theft
Understand how video doorbells can support delivery alerts and monitoring as part of a broader package-security setup.
Secure: Reduce Unattended Exposure
Choose physical protection or a more controlled handoff based on your home, schedule, and shipment.
Package Lock Boxes for Deliveries
Review capacity, weather resistance, delivery access, locking methods, and anchoring before choosing a package box.
How to Protect Package Deliveries When No One Is Home
Plan for workdays, overnight trips, vacations, and valuable shipments using holds, pickup locations, trusted help, or secure home delivery.
How to Prevent Package Theft in an Apartment or Condo
Review building access, lockers, package rooms, front-desk procedures, and the improvements you can make as a resident.
Respond: Work Through a Missing Delivery
First determine whether the package was misplaced, misdelivered, or taken after delivery. Then follow the appropriate recovery steps.
Package Says Delivered but It’s Not Here? What to Do Next
Check delivery locations, household members, tracking details, photographs, and camera footage before assuming theft.
My Package Was Stolen — What Do I Do Now?
Preserve evidence, contact the seller and carrier, and work through reporting and follow-up options when theft is suspected.