Amazon drone delivery takes off in Arizona
Earlier this year, we announced our fastest Prime delivery speeds ever in the U.S. and around the world, with more than five billion items arriving the same or next day globally.
Now we’re taking the next step in our Prime Air journey by starting drone delivery in the West Valley of the Phoenix, Arizona metro area.
That means customers who live near our Same-Day Delivery sites in Tolleson, Arizona, and purchase an eligible item weighing five lb or less, can have it delivered by drone in under an hour. Customers will have access to more than 50,000 everyday essentials—including household products, beauty items, and office/tech supplies.
Our Same-Day Delivery sites are smaller hybrid sites—part fulfillment center, part delivery station—that allow us to fulfill, sort, and deliver products all from one place, so we can get packages out to our customers even quicker.
The MK30 drone also previously started making deliveries in College Station, Texas. We will methodically expand this program in months and years to come.
To learn more about our drone deliveries, go to About Amazon.
Amazon drone delivery takes off in Arizona
Earlier this year, we announced our fastest Prime delivery speeds ever in the U.S. and around the world, with more than five billion items arriving the same or next day globally.
Now we’re taking the next step in our Prime Air journey by starting drone delivery in the West Valley of the Phoenix, Arizona metro area.
That means customers who live near our Same-Day Delivery sites in Tolleson, Arizona, and purchase an eligible item weighing five lb or less, can have it delivered by drone in under an hour. Customers will have access to more than 50,000 everyday essentials—including household products, beauty items, and office/tech supplies.
Our Same-Day Delivery sites are smaller hybrid sites—part fulfillment center, part delivery station—that allow us to fulfill, sort, and deliver products all from one place, so we can get packages out to our customers even quicker.
The MK30 drone also previously started making deliveries in College Station, Texas. We will methodically expand this program in months and years to come.
To learn more about our drone deliveries, go to About Amazon.
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Seller_r9wMm8LrE5iKj
Care to disclose what data you are capturing on this drone? Photography of our backyards? Tracking the activity of passers by who are running Amazon apps? Spying on your delivery drivers without disclosure? Some nefarious practice only your C-suite would be capable of dreaming up?
I look forward to the day when I can have my garbage bags delivered in an hour, at the mere loss of peace and privacy, as swarms of drones buzz overhead a la "Diamond Age".
Seller_keSnEDesLFVwv
Can you please post the carrier name and policy number for the liability insurance that covers your drones?
When one of these drones falls out of the sky and kills someone's dog, I'm sure that you will want the issue resolved quickly so as to avoid negative press.
Seller_jvfhuXWiqaKrs
We sell optics that contain glass, which absolutely will break, if the package is dropped from more than a few feet. Drones are far from perfect, so I sure hope they're not delivering these items. Does Amazon have systems in place to ensure these drones aren't delivering stuff that's not drop-proof? I'd hope the entire Optics subcategory is excluded.
Seller_oEw5wUNHgJxxP
A constructive question for you. @news_amazon
I do not know the area, how close is this test area to is KPHX a class B airport?
I assume, though we all know what that indicates, if it is within or under, or near the airspace you have flight issues.
As a pilot I was once approached by law enforcement on one of our regional projects. This near a Class C airport. They wanted to know if I was flying a Drone.
I simply indicated as a pilot. "That would take cirtification and permits, no sir I am not using a drone for our mission."
Just something to think about.
Seller_vUgHEepiFOQ8U
A disaster just waiting to happen. But it's all about the greedy getting greedier. It will only be a matter of time before it backfires and they will do whatever they can to settle case after case out of court. Meanwhile, in order to cover those settlements, more and more FBA shipments will turn up missing (allegedly) and seller fees will go up to unsustainable levels for most private sellers.
Seller_tzb0Adb4whsRu
There are no words....
I don't believe this is appropriate to have a drone do the this work as @Seller_r9wMm8LrE5iKjstated.
I'm sure sellers will end up paying for this down the road.
Seller_aNsixtdBpnLRG
I have to imagine the INR claims will sky rocket faster than a drone can fly - Porch pirates no longer caught on a Ring camera b/c the camera does not see all the areas that the package was dropped from. How many animals will get to the package first and destroy it? and what about weather conditions that damage the contents? and when it gets dropped on a pile of dog poo in the yard???? my imagination is just full of wonder about dropping goods out of the sky - but if it's all AMZ cheap junk they had shipped from China for the 'new' Haul -then will that seller eat the loss when dropped from the sky?
Seller_AlEct1a8855Rn
Texas has an average of more than 1 gun per person. How many of these drones get shot out of the sky and never make it to the destination? This just became a new game.
Seller_9e9O9DUyGquP9
You don't happen to be doing any drone tests over New Jersey, do you? Just curious....
