So far UPS has done no wrong to me in all of my years of using them. Same with FedEx. You're just one of the unlucky few who had such a thing happen to them.
Next time, ask for a signature required rather than a driver release. You should be able to let the sender know you want this done. I've just started working as a driver helper (a temp job until Dec. 22) and the volume heavily increases around this time, and I've already witnessed two friendly neighbors that followed us around picking up the packages that we left off. The only good thing that came out of that was that I had more work hours since we had to contact the police.