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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by thinkingemote on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:17PM (#22174703)
1% is pretty high theft rate. 1% means if you get a package every week, once in 2 years one will be stolen. Or it means in a city of 100,000 1000 people will have thefts of their packages.
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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by thinkling on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:30PM (#22175350)
"Around the country, more than 1.7 million packages are stolen or go missing every day" (no indication what % this is)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/nyregion/online-shopping-...

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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by sib on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:43PM (#22186174)
A different way of looking at it is, with ~5 packages that were likely stolen out of 2,000 or so delivered, that's about a 1/4% loss rate, which is much lower than the typical retail store suffers from shoplifting.

So, it's pretty much priced into their margins already.

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