Emerging Disruptive Technologies Drone Mail Delivery

Question: Describe about the Emerging Disruptive Technologies, Drone Mail Delivery? Answer: It is a technology based mail delivery project taken by Amazon. Drones will be used to deliver products purchased from Amazon to its customers. Octocoptors will be used to drop packages on lawns of the customers. The delivery time will be only 30 minutes. The delivery will be dispatched from the nearest warehouse of Amazon. Information has been found on: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516690/Amazon-announces-delivery-DRONE.html The technology will not create a new customer base for Amazon. Rather it will help them to expand their customer base and provide real faster and hi-tech delivery system. It is supposed to replace the old courier or postal delivery system. But it will not completely replace those systems or technologies as, drone mail delivery is not feasible for remote area deliveries. Different courier services, postal system used the services of home delivery now. They earn substantially well. But drone mail delivery will not eat up their job as, courier, postal etc. are still valid for long distance deliveries. But in future, if Amazon expands the number of warehouses and brings those close to the proximities of their customers then, courier, postal service will be replaced by drone mail delivery. There is no explicit information about the makers of the drones that will be used by Amazon. But it seems, Amazon will make those by themselves. There will be significant amount of time saved in delivery. These drones are capable of cutting down the delivery time to 30 minutes only! Customers may need to pay a little more to get such faster deliveries. The secondary industry is logistic and courier service industry that will be effected by this. If Amazon is able to provide such service by themselves then they will not hire the couriers or logistics for delivering their orders to customers. Thus these two industries that are still important part of Amazons network, will have losses. References Bates, D. (2013, December 2). Amazon announces delivery by DRONE: Online retailer claims airborne robots will bring packages to your door in 30 minutes. Retrieved from dailymail.co.uk: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516690/Amazon-announces-delivery-DRONE.html Lavars, N. (2014, November 17). Drone delivery nets could be the mailboxes of the future. Retrieved from gizmag.com: https://www.gizmag.com/drone-delivery-nets-skynet/34809/