70 percent of Americans expect to receive packages this holiday season -- here's how many of them will be stolen

Some (okay, many!) would argue that one of the best things about the holiday season is giving and receiving presents.

Though it's nice to hand pick out an item in a store for a loved one, the bottom line is that most of us just don't simply have the time to do so for every person on our lists.

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Thankfully, ordering presents is just as easy as browsing online and clicking a few buttons.

Not so thankfully, many Christmas 'Grinches' know that means it's prime season to steal packages and presents that are delivered home all around the U.S – and the stats prove it.

According to data by August Home, nearly 70 percent of U.S. homeowners expect to receive packages during the holiday season, with 61 percent receiving more packages during this period of time than any other time during the year.

In total, nearly 11 million U.S. homeowners have had a package stolen in the last year.

So what's the proposed solution?

As the study found, nearly 69 percent of homeowners said they would want to have an app that could remotely grant access to delivery services (such as UPS and FedEx) to drop their packages off inside their homes, instead of simply living the boxes outside when the resident isn't home.

August proposes that this could be done via a smart lock that's accessed through an app, with cameras set on and around the front door so that app users could access video footage of their front door at any time.

Of course, this would present the problem of allowing strangers into your home — which could come with a different set of issues. But for the 11 million that have dealt with the anger and inevitable screaming that comes with trying to track a stolen package, we're guessing it could be the lesser of two evils.

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