{"id":14048,"date":"2015-04-22T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:06:14","slug":"amazon-drones-could-deliver-a-package-in-under-30-minutes-for-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/amazon-drones-could-deliver-a-package-in-under-30-minutes-for-1","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Drones Could Deliver A Package In Under 30 Minutes For $1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tasha Keeney, Analyst: Industrial Innovation<\/em> \u2014 Seeking Alpha<\/p>\n<p>In December of last year, Amazon (NASDAQ:<a title=\"Amazon.com, Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/amzn\">AMZN<\/a>) announced Prime Air, the company\u2019s plan to deliver future packages by drone (\u201cUAV\u201d). While the media and others mocked this announcement, UAV delivery is likely to disrupt traditional package delivery significantly. If the FAA gives Amazon clearance for commercial rollout of its drone delivery service, the price that a consumer would pay for the delivery of a five-pound package could be as low as $1.<sup>1<\/sup> Just as impressive, delivery times could drop below thirty minutes. As shown below, FedEx Corp. (NYSE:<a title=\"FedEx Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/fdx\">FDX<\/a>) and United Parcel Service (NYSE:<a title=\"United Parcel Service, Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/ups\">UPS<\/a>) cost 8\u201313 times more for much longer delivery times for a small package.<sup>2<\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/3077136-amazon-drones-could-deliver-a-package-in-under-30-minutes-for-1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tasha Keeney, Analyst: Industrial Innovation \u2014 Seeking Alpha In December of last year, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced Prime Air, the company\u2019s plan to deliver future packages by drone (\u201cUAV\u201d). While the media and others mocked this announcement, UAV delivery is likely to disrupt traditional package delivery significantly. If the FAA gives Amazon clearance for commercial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56396,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions\/56396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}