Amazon is testing a service that will drop its pharmacy patients' medications on their doorsteps via drone in an hour or less.It is piloting the drone delivery service with customers in College Station, Texas, the company said Wednesday. Deliveries from Amazon Pharmacy are made within 60 minutes of a patient placing an order, at no extra cost.Customers can have more than 500 medications to treat conditions like flu, asthma and pneumonia delivered.
Drones can be speedy because they don't have to contend with vehicular traffic. 'Our drones fly over traffic, eliminating the excess time a customer's package might spend in transit on the road,' said Calsee Hendrickson, director of product and program management at Prime Air. 'That's the beauty of drone delivery, and medications were the first thing our customers said they also want delivered quickly via drone.