Off-campus students struggle with “porch pirates”

In early September, Michigan State University students living at the Trowbridge Lofts apartment building decided they’d had enough:something needed to be done about their vanishing packages.

Their presumably stolen goods varied in value and use, ranging from a $10 charging cable to an order of clothes from the online marketplace SHEIN and even flavored syrup for making cocktails.

“Too much sh-t stolen,” one student wrote on an informal petition to lock the building’s mailroom taped to the inside of the elevator. “It’s ridiculous.”…

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