Amazon’s drone deliveries are landing in pools and ponds

Amazon’s speedy drone delivery service will soon reach 500 cities across the US – but that might just mean there are more pools to drop packages into. On Wednesday, ABC7 News Bay Area shared a video showing an Amazon delivery drone hovering over a customer’s pool in Texas, before opening its hatch and plopping the package directly into the water.

This isn’t the first time Amazon’s drones have delivered soggy packages. A video shared last July shows a Prime Air drone dropping a package right next to a customer’s pool in Arizona, but air sent downward by the drone’s propellers blew it straight into the water. In an interview with local news o …

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