{"id":99310,"date":"2019-12-04T01:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/drones-used-to-deliver-parcels-to-remote-alpine-villages"},"modified":"2019-12-04T01:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:45:12","slug":"drones-used-to-deliver-parcels-to-remote-alpine-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/drones-used-to-deliver-parcels-to-remote-alpine-villages","title":{"rendered":"Drones used to deliver parcels to remote Alpine villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drones-used-to-deliver-parcels-to-remote-alpine-villages2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s postal service has begun using drones to make parcel deliveries to a remote Alpine village.<\/p>\n<p>La Poste\u2019s subsidiary, DPD, says flying packages by remote control is more reliable, quicker and safer than driving a van up narrow mountain roads in winter when they are often icy or blocked by snow.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery by drone, which flies at around 30km\/h, takes eight minutes for a round trip, compared with 30 minutes for a vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s postal service has begun using drones to make parcel deliveries to a remote Alpine village. La Poste\u2019s subsidiary, DPD, says flying packages by remote control is more reliable, quicker and safer than driving a van up narrow mountain roads in winter when they are often icy or blocked by snow. The delivery by drone, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99310","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}