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Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy.

You need to be home to put out the landing target and to make sure that a porch pirate doesn’t make off with your item or that it doesn’t roll into the street (which happened once to Lord and Silverman). But your car can’t be in the driveway. Letting the drone land in the backyard would avoid some of these problems, but not if there are trees.

Amazon has also warned customers that drone delivery is unavailable during periods of high demand for drone delivery.

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[–] [email protected] 181 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As someone who frequently orders one can of soup, this is excellent news.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dropping a can of soup 12ft onto a driveway seems bad for the can and for the driveway.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago

Self-opening soup can

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just give it a tiny parachute

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Operation Gumbo Drop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It'll be in Amazon packaging.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure a twelve foot drop onto concrete isn't good for a can of soup. Maybe it'd work for a T-shirt?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Or a beer... As long as it's Lite Beer!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

As long as you don't leave your car in the driveway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

People buy clothes off of Amazon?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

man killed by falling soup can which he ordered on Amazon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For those of us who order one can of beer, please wish us luck when we go to open it