UK’s Royal Mail brings Scottish island closer with drone delivery


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020

As the Internet has sparked a massive increase in parcel deliveries and a sharp drop in letter writing, Royal Mail must adapt its business, and drones are a step in that direction. — Reuters

Few would say the nether reaches of Scotland’s Isle of Mull – an hour by ferry from the mainland, then another hour or more on narrow, winding roads – are easy to get to. But Britain’s Royal Mail Plc brought the distant coast of Mull a wee bit closer when it used a drone to deliver a package to a lighthouse on the island’s windswept north shore.

The parcel containing a hoodie sweatshirt, which the company says was the world’s first regular postal delivery by small self-piloted aircraft, marked the beginning of trials of a service that Royal Mail aims to use in remote regions across the UK.

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