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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
It will be interesting to see how delivery company using a UAV can put the package even close to my front porch. Are they just going to dump it in the yard? I guess they could indeed fly it over the house and put it on the larger back porch out of the weather. That will freak out the dogs big time.
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I think they will require a special drop box to put deliveries in and it will have to be accessible from the air. You may be right about rural deliveries. It can't be very cost effective to send a truck out for an hour to make 2 deliveries. I suspect they will still be better off using trucks in more densely populated areas. If they have 200 deliveries in a square mile area I don't see it saving them any time or money to load up and send out 200 UAVs vs loading one truck and sending it out. I don't see a UAV with the capacity of a UPS truck maneuvering through a tree-lined neighborhood, but I may be wrong.