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Re:Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone with Hybrid Design by dba7dba on Monday November 30, 2015 @02:05AM (#10648189)
'The interesting thing is how do UPS/FedEx/USPS feel about this, considering that Amazon is aiming to "evolve" their business model?'

UPS/FedEx/USPS can feel whatever they want but there's not a darn thing they can do about it.

Re:Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone with Hybrid Design by jml3on on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:23AM (#10650146)
I'd guess they'll be elated. Delivering packages in the far reaches of suburbia (and beyond) is probably costing them money, as it takes a lot of truck&driver time to deliver a single package. If we assume they maintain their hold on urban deliveries and let amazon take care of the suburbia ones; their margin will go up.

Also, I'll point out that in my area of suburbia, UPS/Fedex sometimes deliver to USPS and let USPS do the last mile. it's not hard to imagine they'd deliver to an amazon base station where robots & drones would take over.

Re:Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone with Hybrid Design by TaylorGood on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:23AM (#10650142)
What Fedex does in my neighborhood I haven't seen prior.. they recently brought a gas-powered golf cart and the driver uses his truck as the "warehouse" and makes rounds all day.