“If someone rings my doorbell, I get an alert ... I can say, hey, Alexa, when did the package get delivered? And it will pull up the video ... and tell me what's in that package if it's from Amazon.”

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Ask Alexa to retrieve the Ring doorbell video of the last package delivery and report what was in the package

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