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Explore federal mail-theft enforcement, online non-delivery fraud complaints, and—when enough eligible reports exist—privacy-protected community trends. Each dataset measures something different.
Never combined into one theft estimate.
The figures below come from federal agencies, not ReportPlot cases. They are not interchangeable measures of doorstep package theft.
May 12, 2023–September 30, 2026. The Postal Inspection Service reports enforcement activity, not a count of stolen packages.
Reported to IC3 in calendar year 2025. The category includes online transaction fraud; it is not a count of misdelivered parcels.
Approximately $503 million in reported 2025 losses in the same FBI category. These are complainant-reported financial losses, not package values.
One counts arrests over several years. Another counts complaints in a single year. The third represents reported financial losses for that complaint category. None establishes how many doorstep parcels were stolen nationwide.
A USPIS strategy report recorded a rise in high-volume mail theft from mail receptacles from 20,574 reports in fiscal year 2019 to 49,146 reports in fiscal year 2023, a 139% increase.
That measure includes criminal activity involving mail receptacles, including theft connected to check fraud. It does not tell us what percentage of residential delivery packages are taken from porches.
Read the USPIS strategy report ↗One headline number cannot answer that question. Our first research guide explains the evidence and its blind spots.
What USPS inspectors and the FBI actually count, why porch piracy remains difficult to measure, and what consumers can do when a delivery goes missing.
Read the research ↗These figures come only from people who chose to submit reports to ReportPlot. They are never mixed into the federal cards above.
Self-selected reports are not a national survey. ReportPlot publishes eligible aggregates only after explicit consent, staff review, duplicate checks, and at least ten distinct participating accounts per displayed segment. Individual cases and precise locations remain private.
These are user-submitted incident reports, not verified thefts or carrier performance rates. They are not representative of all deliveries. ReportPlot reviews reports for publication eligibility but cannot independently confirm every event.
Only reports with explicit permission, staff review and no duplicate flag are eligible. A provider or incident type is displayed only after reports come from at least 10 different accounts. Counts can include inaccurate reports; they are not company rankings.
We are collecting private reports while protecting individuals from being identifiable in small datasets. No numbers are shown until the reporting threshold is met.
Only states with at least 10 distinct reporting accounts are colored. Grey states mean insufficient publishable data, not zero incidents. Colors compare ReportPlot submission counts—not the risk of theft or delivery-company performance.
States appear only after enough opted-in reports are reviewed and clear duplicate screening.
Schematic, not to scale. Does not display individual reports, addresses or ZIP codes. Counts may change when reports are reviewed or consent is withdrawn.
Counts reflect reports submitted to ReportPlot, not all deliveries, crime incidents or proven theft. They cannot be used to infer a delivery company's rate of theft because total delivery volumes are not available. No individual case, specific location, images, identity or description appears here.
Information refreshes as staff review reports and as users change their consent. A user may withdraw aggregate consent at any time; a qualifying category may then disappear. The state-level heatmap separately requires location-sharing consent, staff review, duplicate exclusion and at least ten distinct reporting accounts per state. It is a schematic visualization, not a map of exact theft locations.
Document the incident privately and keep your case history together. Public sharing and inclusion in aggregate statistics are optional.
USPIS counts law-enforcement outcomes and mail-theft activity. FBI IC3 compiles submitted complaints and reported financial losses. Different collection methods, time periods and definitions mean these numbers should not be compared as theft rates.
Only opted-in, reviewed, non-duplicate reports may contribute to displayed aggregates. Suppression thresholds prevent publication of very small groups. These reports cannot establish carrier-wide performance or national prevalence.
Federal data cards are editorial snapshots, not real-time feeds. Figures and their source periods are reviewed when agencies publish new releases. Send a correction through our contact page.
Source desk: USPIS Project Safe Delivery · USPIS Mail Theft Strategy · FBI IC3 2025 · FBI IC3 fact sheet. Last editorial review: November 9, 2026.
