{"id":69154,"date":"2016-06-28T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=69154"},"modified":"2016-06-28T11:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:10:19","slug":"are-drones-the-future-of-parcel-delivery","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/are-drones-the-future-of-parcel-delivery","title":{"rendered":"Are Drones the Future of Parcel Delivery?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone remembers when Amazon made waves in 2013 by announcing it was testing drone delivery. Most assumed it was a joke\u2014and back then, maybe it sort of was.\u00a0 Fast-forward to today, however, and drone delivery is becoming not just possible, but plausible.<\/p>\n

Canada Post is the latest salient organization to reveal it is seriously considering the idea. The national post office is exploring the concept of small drones delivering mail in Canada, a spokesman announced recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a competitive space, especially when it comes to parcel delivery and things like that,\u201d Jon Hamilton, a Canada Post spokesman, told The Canadian Press<\/a>. \u201cWe do look into these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, drones are popular among hobbyists and in certain industries, such as film and YouTube, where the \u00a0small, unmanned aerial vehicles enable new levels of cinematic footage.<\/p>\n

Canada Post’s delivery network currently consists of\u00a0 13,000 vehicles, 6,000 post offices, and zero drones. The organization’s top priority is not flying mail, but maximizing the efficiency of its existing resources, Hamilton said. Even Amazon bills its “Prime Air” as a “future” service with no promised launch date.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s fun to think about.<\/p>\n

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Everyone remembers when Amazon made waves in 2013 by announcing it was testing drone delivery. Most assumed it was a joke\u2014and back then, maybe it sort of was.\u00a0 Fast-forward to today, however, and drone delivery is becoming not just possible, but plausible. Canada Post is the latest salient organization to reveal it is seriously considering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":69320,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-69154","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/69154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/69154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69154"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=69154"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=69154"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=69154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}