few words…
air rifle proof?
catapult proof?
how long before one downed?
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Clay pigeon shooting with mystery prizes! 
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You won’t let drones fly over your property but you’ll let Passenger Jets and Caro jets fly over your house. Here we go with the ‘‘do gooders’’.
Like the CAA is going to approve this, if they haven’t done so already.
Is this who I think it is ?
It’s R-Truth’s childhood hero 
here’s one for you, I live in a bog standard semi like probably 15% of the population… sat nav does not get my address perfect.
I’ve got a couple of kids and checking up on them or trying to find their phones they are either a couple of doors up or down from my actual address…
so… are these delivery drones really going to dump it at my house?
I’ve got a small front garden… with a mature spread out tree (and a few others about), car on the drive, hedges and metal railing and wall…
now it’s not impossible for a drone to land on my drone lawn and take a dump (see Amazon drone image many posts above Amazon drones (again, by 2024 in UK) - #9 by Kirky )… but it’s going to be a challenge… add to that a couple of overhead phone lines (it won’t hit mine, but my semi
attached neighbours that traverses my front garden… right over that grass I mentioned)
… I’m not so sure that Amazon are thinking this one through… but then it’s good publicity…
add to that the weather… ahhhh that great British always dry, minimal squalling wind around structures and trees…
… I guess the parcel could end up anywhere… but in my possession!
I’ve not read the detail - but I can’t imagine normal urban streets will be their target.
Around here, Amazon often drop to 10 houses within a short distance and that would need 10 drones all in close proximity (and in an FRZ, in my case).
Where economies may be had is delivering to houses down long tracks out of small villages in the middle of nowhere.
Another thing drones won’t be able to do is check if a neighbour is willing to take the parcel in when the recipient isn’t at home … as I do quite often, being retired, for the houses either side of me.
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true… but don’t they pay their drivers per parcel delivery… IE they don’t take into account the complexity of the delivery
I know my neighbour took up parcel delivery when lockdowns and social distancing killed the venue and entertainment industry (musician) and he told me how tricky it was to find some of the houses on some of the country lanes where they are named and not numbered, until you’ve dropped a few things off around there and you keep your delivery area, so maybe…
could also be tricky delivering to a block of flats… (I remember my father having a serious conversation with a conservatory telemarketer… he did tell them it would be tricky… but they were insistent until he gave them the address as flat 207…). he had time on his hands in a care home…
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I believe there are various performance related earnings … but I know I had a collection that for three weeks was reported daily as “Nobody at home” when I was there every day (and camera shows no van every stopped outside), simply because it was a heavy cumbersome item. Chances are that happens with deliveries too … when it’s too much of a hassle.
Swinging things on a long rope onto the correct balcony (or through the window) of a flat is something I’d probably pay to watch … perhaps that’s something I should suggest to Amazon. 
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… hope it’s an open window!
most windows these days are on 100mm restrictors… to stop people falling or throwing themselves out… bring back the good old days when we were allowed to play with guns knives and fireworks as kids…
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Someone posted on a Facebook group today. They’d bought a S/H DJI Mini 3 Pro. Sent it up and took a test video at their house. Posted a screenshot and there was a load of figures on it. Someone suggested it had “close captions “ turned on in settings. I noticed a longditude and latitude on it. Put that into Google Maps and, wow, got his location there on my screen. Compared the view on his screenshot and the satellite view on Google Maps and guess what ? It was absolutely spot on, right down to his back garden. Almost within about 10cm. So yep, I reckon Amazon could possibly drop a parcel down your chimney if they wanted to. 
They’ll be indoors? … and GPS is never that accurate.
In open space, however, even consumer GPS is pretty good … but they’re is another level of accuracy available at a price.
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Interesting announcement here, even moreso when you consider that the Darlington Amazon depot nestles right next to the FRZ of Teesside Airport
Made it to legacy media:
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Well, those 14 months came and went and we’re still no nearer 
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Then there’s all of this too 
Another 14 months from now, possibly? 
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It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Despite it’s size Teeside Airport is massively underused so imagine there will be more flexibility than most.
I’m sure the four flights a day from MME won’t mind 
It’s probably why they chose Darlington, as the airport isn’t the busiest.
It is used by lots of military and civil flight training tho
Just yesterday we had a C17 Globemaster doing numerous touch & go as part of ongoing training programs
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