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Retailers Look To Deliveries By Drone
- NRF, Tuesday, March 8, 2016 9:05 AM
Since Amazon announced its drone program more than two years ago, a number of retailers have been investigating the feasibility of drone delivery. While the idea is often met with skepticism, the practice has already begun. DHL Parcel started delivering medications to the remote German island of Juist in 2014, while California startup Matternet is making drone deliveries of medical supplies in places like the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The first U.S. drone delivery approved by the Federal Aviation Administration took place last July when a drone made a delivery to a remote location in Virginia.
High school summers I worked in a factory packing boxes for UPS shipment. In an 8 hour day that amounted to 120 boxes weighing a combined 3 tons. Trying to imagine those 50 pound boxes flying through my neighborhood on a windy day.
I've always been concerned about pigeon guana fouling my 3rd floor skylights. These drone stories bring my concern about aerial bombardment to a whole new level.