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Amazon’s drone deliveries are landing in pools and ponds

Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.

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 outlet AZFamily 3TVat the time, the customer said he...

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