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

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 TheRaven on Thursday July 09 2015, @10:07AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday July 09 2015, @10:07AM (#206895) Journal
    It also probably depends on how cheap they can be made. If you're delivering a few parcels to a small town, then driving the delivery truck to the edge of the town and having the drones handle the last few miles is probably quite a big saving in terms of time, but it would depend on being able to have a few dozen drones in the van.
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