How to retrieve a stolen package

The Lobster Shift is a semi-regular column by Kenneth R. Rosen that explores the city and its inhabitants in the hours between dusk and dawn.
They loiter in the hallway, say things like, “Yo, man, I’m on the phone,” asking for privacy then carry on with their conversations echoing throughout the stairwell. “That’s not his number, man,” another guy says, “that’s not his number.” In my bedroom in the back of my apartment, far from the stairwell