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Which does make me wonder how much better this plan would be than using, say, motorcycle couriers. If the story had been - 'Amazon to deploy motor bikes to del
by benjamta 13y ago
Which does make me wonder how much better this plan would be than using, say, motorcycle couriers.
If the story had been - 'Amazon to deploy motor bikes to deliver packages within 10 miles of their distribution centre' it'd have received a lot less attention.
Packages are routinely delivered quickly, accurately, securely and cheaply in urban areas. I do think Amazon are solving a problem that doesn't exist. Nice bit of PR though.
- patmcc 13y agoMotorcycle couriers are comparatively very expensive - a 10 mile delivery is easily half an hour of real human time (plus gas, wear, etc). It might be "cheap" if they're delivering $50 of (high margin) pizza, but less so if they're delivering a single book. That's the problem they're trying to solve - delivering small items quickly and cheaply.