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No thank you. Porch pirates are the scourge of the holiday season, creeping around neighborhoods at all hours of the... Posted by Saint Paul Police Department on Friday, December 13, 2019

“So just a quick little thank you for leaving me the opportunity of stealing your package. Very nice of you. Thank you,” the note read, which was signed by “The new owner of your package.”

In an interview with CBS Minnesota, Smith said while she appreciated the “nicely-crafted ‘thank you’ note,” she was “angry and confused and quite flabbergasted someone would actually leave a ‘thank you’ note when they steal a package.”

St. Paul Police Sgt. Mike Ernster said the thank you note is “something we’ve never seen before” and “it’s so unheard of.”

“So we want people to report crimes as they occur so we can keep track of them and hopefully solve them,” Ernster told CBS Minnesota, wondering if others got notes too.”