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title: "Amazon’s drone deliveries are landing in pools and ponds"
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description: "Amazon's drone delivery service, expanding to 500 US cities, faces recurring issues with packages landing in water. Recent videos show drones dropping parcels directly into pools in Texas and Arizona, highlighting operational challenges as the company scales its Prime Air network."
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# 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 …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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