I am lucky. I live on a cul-de-sac with a sign that says dead end, and there is little traffic other than neighbors and people who are supposed to be there. You have to go up a few stairs to get to my front porch. Which is hidden beneath the roof overhead and trees and bushes out front. You have to go past three cameras approaching the house, and two more on the front porch. Not that the cameras would deter a determined thief, but you would have a hard time avoiding having your face recorded (different angles and different heights). You'd think I live in a bad neighborhood or I'm paranoid or something, but it's actually more benign than that - I've just bought a lot of cameras to play with over the years. Other engineers and computer geeks probably understand this abnormal behavior trait. I figured I might as well install them somewhere so they're not sitting in a drawer unused. I still have a couple more left in that drawer though.
Besides this, when the delivery is coming from Amazon, I have my Echo Dots (many, all over the house) alert me when a package has been delivered. This notification is sent from Amazon. I have one of the cameras set to notify me of motion - the camera that points at our front door from the street angle - because that one never gets a false alert due to seeing traffic on the street. You've got to be at our front door for it to see you.
And you're not going to see that camera either, since it's behind you as you approach the front door, hidden in the eves of the roof. You might see it on your way out though. Too late! Occasionally a bird will fly onto the front porch and set this motion detecting camera off, but that's rare.
Since I'm retired and I'm home much of the day, I usually have the package retrieved from my front porch before the delivery vehicle has even left. And when I sometimes get the Amazon notification that "your package has been delivered!" and I go to get it and find it missing, I check the camera recordings and usually find one that shows the Amazon person delivering my package to a neighbors house. The email that Amazon sends showing a delivery picture is sometimes delayed, but when it finally comes in I can see that the porch with my package on it is not my porch. Sometimes I can recognize which neighbor the porch belongs to, sometimes not. Once they delivered my package to somebody across town and I obviously did not recognize that porch.
In the end, anyone trying to steal my pencil being shipped from Amazon is going to have to put up a fight to get it!
