{"id":9938,"date":"2016-12-12T04:13:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T09:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2016-12-12T04:13:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T09:13:21","slug":"having-gifts-delivered-brick-police-recommend-anti-theft-precautions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/12\/having-gifts-delivered-brick-police-recommend-anti-theft-precautions\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Gifts Delivered? Brick Police Recommend Anti-Theft Precautions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9939\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2697033778_c0d8d5f542_o.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9939\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2697033778_c0d8d5f542_o-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"A gift delivery box at a doorstep. (Photo: Chris Harrison\/Flickr)\" width=\"618\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2697033778_c0d8d5f542_o-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2697033778_c0d8d5f542_o-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2697033778_c0d8d5f542_o-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gift delivery box at a doorstep. (Photo: Chris Harrison\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are those Christmas gifts you ordered online about ready to be delivered? If so, you may want to take a few extra steps to make sure they don\u2019t end up in the hands of a thief instead of your loved ones this season.<\/p>\n<p>Brick police recently issued a number of tips to help keep packages secure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask for a tracking number. Most major shipping companies offer this service at no charge. This number allows you to track your packages and notifies you when they will be delivered.<\/li>\n<li>Request a \u201cSignature Delivery Option\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Request a specific drop off time and date when you will be home to accept your package.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Arrange to have your package held at the shipping service so you can pick them up at your convenience.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Ask the delivery service to leave your packages at a side or back door.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Have your packages delivered to your workplace if your employer allows this.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Have your package delivered to the home of a relative or trusted neighbor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Ask to have your packages delivered to a retail store so you can pick them up at your convenience.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">If your packages do not arrive as scheduled, contact the sender immediately.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you suspect that your package was stolen, contact the police department at 732-262-1100.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/12\/having-gifts-delivered-brick-police-recommend-anti-theft-precautions\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are those Christmas gifts you ordered online about ready to be delivered? If so, you may want to take a few extra steps to make sure they don\u2019t end up in the hands of a thief instead of your loved ones this season. Brick police recently issued a number of tips to help keep packages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,2479],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-christmas-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2697033778_c0d8d5f542_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2Ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}