San Antonio has one of the highest rates of package theft in the U.S., a new study found. Credit: Pexels / Polina Tankilevitch

Before San Antonio residents start placing orders for Prime Day, they may want to keep an eye open for porch pirates.

With Amazon’s Prime Day sales event running June 23-26 and a wave of online orders anticipated to follow, a new study ranks San Antonio as the eighth-worst U.S. city for package theft.

Indeed, the Alamo City recorded more than 3 million package thefts last year, or almost 3,000 incidents per capita, according to the report. That’s a total of $132.9 million in stolen goods.

For the analysis researchers for UK-based online vape retailer Ecigone reviewed city-level package theft data to compile rankings comparing the total value of goods lost, total incidents and incidents per capita for the largest U.S. metros.

The 10 worst US cities for package theft are:

  1. Chicago, $254,279,155 lost, 6,495,947 incidents, 1,760 incidents per capita
  2. New York City, $248,221,997 lost, 6,374,072 incidents, 821 incidents per capita
  3. Miami, $213,779,820 lost, 4,542,976 incidents, 1,844 incidents per capita
  4. Houston, $199,951,984 lost, 4,559,301 incidents, 1,524 incidents per capita
  5. Baltimore, $159,487,383 lost, 3,857,234 incidents, 3,416 incidents per capita
  6. Dallas-Fort Worth, $159,096,197 lost, 3,627,708 incidents, 1,124 incidents per capita
  7. Los Angeles, $150,271,324 lost, 4,279,085 incidents, 839 incidents per capita
  8. San Antonio, $132,908,348 lost, 3,030,574 incidents, 2,813 incidents per capita
  9. Detroit, $119,132,736 lost, 3,410,203 incidents, 1,971 incidents per capita
  10. Virginia Beach, $107,669,161 lost, 2,989,897 incidents, 4,199 incidents per capita

“Prime Day is exactly the kind of shopping moment where people order quickly and then forget the delivery risk,” the report states. “If a parcel is valuable, age-sensitive or hard to replace, do not leave it sitting outside all afternoon.”

Designated collection points and signed delivery can protect purchases, according to the study, which notes that carrier guidance from Amazon and UPS suggest that pickup locations and lockers are typically the safest places to accept deliveries.

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