I just returned home from a four-day trip out of town. I was able to stop delivery of my snail mail, but suspected that a couple of packages from amazon.com would show up via UPS, so I asked a homie to roll over to the crib to pick them up on Saturday. She was not able to get over here, and sure enough, there were packages on the front porch today (three of them). What was missing, however, was the Sunday paper, which has always showed up each week for almost four years. So some theives stole the paper but left three boxes alone? Weird....
your thief did you a favor. a package (or two or three) could have been left 10 minutes ago. but if the sunday paper is there, scoundrels know exactly* how long you have not been to your front door.
auspicious, not weird!
*term used loosely