Surely Amazon, of all people, is capable of slapping a unique barcode on each one, and crediting that $5 back to the account it belonged to?
Some pallets already have these types of chips embedded, and it has ensured these pallets are returned in most cases (and prevented pallet resale).
The theft is beyond the control of the recipient / customer.
That's my point.
Much the same way as such neighbourhoods are already food and retail deserts either because direct risks of operation are too high, or because insurers and/or banks won't back or support ventures there.
Paul Baran, co-inventer of packet-switched networking, wrote about the underlying problem in the 1960s:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3780.html (footnote, p. 7)