Thieves in the United States are diversifying their targets and they are not just retail stores, as various reports indicate that they are now targeting delivery trucks and trains with parcels, CNBC published.
Trains and delivery trucks have become the point of interest for some thieves looking for goods to steal and sell.
Carol Tome, executive director of UPS, pointed out that it is a situation that should concern , as thieves aren’t just robbing stores, some are now targeting trains and delivery trucks full of packages on their way to customers’ doors.
The CEO of UPS, commented on Friday that at the end of December one of the company’s vehicles was broken into in Atlanta in the early hours of the day.
The criminals hijacked the truck after the driver left one of the largest centers of the delivery company, which they arrested him threatening him with a gun, tied him up, threw him in the back of the vehicle and took the packages, Tome said.
On the other hand, in downtown Los Angeles a train was looted, At least that is what a video shows in which remains of packages that littered the roads can be seen. The assailants breached shipping containers and left behind cardboard boxes that had been carrying Amazon and REI purchases, including some with UPS labels.
The abandoned boxes contained merchandise ranging from unused Covid tests and fishing lures to EpiPens.
According to news media reports this type of theft has been an ongoing problem in recent months.
Tome de UPS said that the company is helping customers who have affected packages and that its security team is being reinforced to try to protect packages that must be delivered by the delivery company.
“I wouldn’t say it’s materially higher, but it’s something we all need to be concerned about,” said the CEO of UPS.
In the face of retail theft, the executive directors of companies sent a letter to Congress last month, urging legislation that would make it harder for criminals to entities hide behind false screen names and false commercial information in third-party markets, in reference to the sales of stolen products that they carry out on the internet.
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