Amazon Prime Air

[Karsa Orlong]

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8037720011

 

It's not April 1st, is it? 

 

 

[Little Pixie]

 I`ve seen it - I still don`t believe it.

[Signor Finzione]

They're like those little parachute things in The Hunger Games.

[Signor Finzione]

Have you seen Waterstones' response?

 

http://www.waterstones.com/blog/2013/12/introducing-o-w-l-s/#more-15525

 

"Putting O.W.L.S. into commercial use will take a number of years as it takes ages to train owls to do anything and we only just thought of it this morning."

 

 

[Marie H]

Have you seen Waterstones' response?

 

"Putting O.W.L.S. into commercial use will take a number of years as it takes ages to train owls to do anything and we only just thought of it this morning."

 

 

 

 

P. S. I just read the best of the comments with Waterstones O.W.L. blog.  Ah, dry humour still lives.

Edited December 2, 2013 by Marie H

[muggle not]

Jeff Bezos is an amazing entrepreneur. I put him perhaps ahead of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for his innovations, at least on the same level.

[Brian.]

There is no way that the FAA in America and the CAA in the UK will allow un-manned vehicles to fly over populated airspace for commercial reasons for a long long time yet. It's a great way to get people talking from an advertising point but its a flight of fancy. Incidentally, the couriers they use at the moment are already pretty good at leaving stuff in people's gardens.

[Athena]

The idea seems very farfetched to me.

[Signor Finzione]

its a flight of fancy.

 

Ooh, I see what you did there.

 

Incidentally, the couriers they use at the moment are already pretty good at leaving stuff in people's gardens.

 

And wheelie bins! (Even on bin-collection day  )

[muggle not]

Jeff Bezos is serious about delivery with drones and it is in all the newspapers in the U.S. I can't speak for the U.K. but I believe it is a good possibility in the U.S. Bezos realizes that there are many obstacles to overcome but he is a visionary and is putting a lot of money into the idea.

[pontalba]

Jeff Bezos is serious about delivery with drones and it is in all the newspapers in the U.S. I can't speak for the U.K. but I believe it is a good possibility in the U.S. Bezos realizes that there are many obstacles to overcome but he is a visionary and is putting a lot of money into the idea.

 

I saw it too, muggle.  But it won't be for several years.

 

But, the good news is that Sunday deliveries are being implemented in some cities.  New York and Los Angeles I believe.  New Orleans next year!  I'm hoping that N.O. will extend to up here.  After all our mail comes through N.O., so it might.

[pontalba]

And............just saw this article on the Washington Post..... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/12/03/forget-the-doubters-commercial-drones-are-here-to-stay/?wprss=rss_technology&wpisrc=nl_tech

 

Not only Amazon.