Factlet (3)

   You are probably relaxing and when you finally get around to Christmas shopping you will likely do so online. Who wants to face the bad weather, bad traffic and the other bad-mannered shoppers at some god-awful mall where there is also bad music playing. It is my duty, however, to spoil your day by providing this internet shopping alert which I noticed in a recent headline and which is presented as Factlet (3): "90,000 Packages Disappear Daily in N.Y.C."
   Package theft is also up in other American cities and one assumes that is the case even here. The article offers some remedies. In one apartment building a retired person who is always around accepts all the packages and apparently corporate mailrooms are packed because shoppers are sending the items ordered to their workplaces. Of course, one can shop (at the store, of course) for a camera like the one pictured above.

Sources: "90,000 Packages Disappear Daily in N.Y.C. Is Help on the Way?", Winnie Hu and Matthew Haag, New York Times, Dec. 2, 2019.
"In New York City, where more orders are delivered than anywhere else in the country, over 90,000 packages a day are stolen or disappear without explanation, up roughly 20 percent from four years ago, according to an analysis conducted for The New York Times.
About 15 percent of all deliveries in urban areas fail to reach customers on the first attempt because of package theft and other issues, like deliveries to the wrong house, according to transportation experts."
"Concerns about package theft have helped push video doorbell camera sales to about 1.2 million cameras nationally this year from less than 100,000 cameras sold in 2014, according to Jack Narcotta, a senior analyst for Strategy Analytics."

Post Script:
While I may have spoiled your day, I have provided a solution if you are wondering what to buy. A surveillance camera is a good option although the recipient may not get overly excited.

If you have forgotten what a Factlet is I will provide here the explanation offered when I told you what a Bee Gee was:
What's a Factlet?
     Almost daily I come across very interesting facts of which you are unaware and I thought it would be good for you and great for me if I just posted such information to avoid having to think and actually create content myself. This was going to be the first sample of what I was going to call a 'Factoid' which I thought was just a trivial bit of interesting information. But, I made the mistake of looking up the word which was coined by Norman Mailer back in the early '70s. Originally a 'factoid' was not something that was true, but rather information that was accepted as fact because it had been repeated or appeared in print. Given that there is so much 'fake news' around I thought it best to use the word suggested by William Safire so that you can be sure that the future factlets on this blog will be true trivia.
(For the source for this just see the Wiki entry for 'Factoid'.)