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Here's your money briefing for Tuesday, January 7th.

I'm J.R. Waylon for the Wall Street Journal.

As porch pirates continue to steal deliveries from people's properties, some retailers

are making package protection fees mandatory, spreading the burden of package theft among

all customers.

So if a package gets damaged in transit or stolen after it gets delivered,

customers usually turn to retailers to make it right, which is a cost for them. And as

porch piracy becomes a larger problem, retailers are really struggling to keep up with those

rising costs on top of things like potential tariffs or inflation and other things

that are putting pressure on their bottom line.

We'll talk to Wall Street Journal, personal finance reporter Amani Moise.

After the break.

It's taken a few months, but I think I've almost chosen our next car.

I've weighed up new versus secondhand, assessed the depreciation rates and spoken to eight insurance providers.

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