Yep, I see similar stories on the news all the time, especially near Xmas time. Sad, very sad. Too lazy to do their job the right way.

For most of my adult life I've lived in apartments. They are the worst places to live as far as deliveries, and for pretty much every other reason too. Once upon a time, UPS and FedEX required you to have a form filled out and on file with them stating you gave them permission to leave a package on your front porch if you were not home. They don't seem to do that any more, as far as I can tell. They just leave the package in open site if you live in a house, or at the front office if you live in an apartment. My UPS guy will try to conceal it by putting it under a chair on my porch that has a soft rain cover over it. That is actually pretty nice of him to do that. Typically, with USPS, UPS, and FedEX, they put the package on the porch then ring the doorbell and leave before I get to the door. My neighborhood is fairly crime free, so no big deal. You can always request a special delivery for a specific package, but I've never done that so no clue how that would work out.

I live in my own house now, and have for a few years. It is interesting how I am treated differently now by delivery services. When living in an apartment, the delivery services are not very nice to you and most of them refused to deliver to the door. Instead they delivered to the apartment office. Since the apartment office only had a couple of employees at a time, they were sometimes both out for lunch or showing apartments to prospective renters, and if the office was closed the delivery services couldn't leave the package. I don't blame the delivery services as many, if not most, apartment complexes are notorious for packages getting stolen if they are left at the door. USPS would leave a key in my mailbox to the larger package box at our mailbox cluster, but it was often too small, so they too would take the larger packages inside the main office. Now that I live in my house, I am treated much better. I get door deliveries and better service with a smile. I am the same middle-class, well educated guy I have always been, but now I am treated better by the delivery services. I think they lump apartment dwellers into the same category as trailer park residents. I assume they have a good reason to believe stuff will happen to packages if left unattended a few seconds or more at apartments and certain other neighborhoods. Yes, they do indeed profile, but they are probably right in doing so. They are profiling the neighborhood, not individuals, and they are going by experience. More specifically they are categorizing neighborhoods and dwelling types into which need more secure drop offs. Profiling probably is not the term to use, but basically that is what they are doing.