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Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone

posted by martyb on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the drones-going-postal-doesn't-sound-too-good dept.

yarp writes:

The Guardian is reporting that the Swiss postal service has started testing delivery of parcels by autonomous drones.

"The drone has an extremely light construction and is capable of transporting loads of up to one kilo over more than 10 kilometres with a single battery charge," Swiss Post said in a statement.

Swiss Post see drones being in commercial use in about 5 years' time if the trials prove successful. Could this set a precedent for delivery-by-drone elsewhere in the world despite other proposed services (e.g. Amazon's) facing stiff regulation?

Have any Soylentils in Switzerland been on the receiving end of one of these deliveries or seen a drone going about its business?

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday July 09 2015, @07:26AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday July 09 2015, @07:26AM (#206840) Journal

    but the UK is full of drones obliviously trudging about, eyes glassed over,

    Ah, my dear chap, you seem to have mistaken clones for drones. Common enough mistake, and no doubt rectified as soon as Labour is in power again, or Scotland secedes. Cheerio!

    But the Swiss, they took neutrality seriously, to the point of hiding Nazi gold taken from the fillings of death camp victims. That, and not joining the UN until a year or two ago and having all their bridges mined. Americans have the same policy, but instead of mining their bridges with explosives, they just let them degrade to the point that any invading army would find it's tanks in the river.

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