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Drones that don't accidentally kill toddlers and pets and create liability nightmares? Yes, considerably more expensive than a minimum wage delivery human.
But currently, delivery doesn't happen for anywhere near minimum wage. A fully-loaded UPS or FedEx driver probably costs $100k or close, and those trucks look pretty expensive...
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> Amazon.com is their US site. That's exactly the problem. .com US Initially this kind of behavior was "quaint" and amusingly "typically American". But in 2015 it's just f-ing annoying.
So, anyone not targeting every nation on earth must not use GTLDs?
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I think the crowd here over estimates how tech savvy everyone else is, or whom actually are aware of the .us domain, and also care enough to think it should redirect there.
But we already see that non-tech-savvy people go to Amazon.com from the UK and expect to be able to buy things that they can't buy. Having a .us domain would be less confusing, for most of the people on the internet.
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Those kind of drones are not the kind of drone that can deliver a package, unless that package can survive a ballistic delivery to the ground. Sure, by shaping the drone into a winged vehicle you can get the payload capacity up and make it move quickly as it goes from waypoint to waypoint on a "delivery route", even in windy conditions. But now you can't deliver the package itself neatly onto the ground adjacent to o…
Not sure what the deleted post is referencing, but Google is using a fixed-wing design. To deliver the package, you tilt the entire drone up to do VTOL. At this point you can lower the package. In theory, it will work and have higher efficiency than a multicopter design. I'm not sure whether or not Google has had any success with it.
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The person kept the receipts. It was systematic behavior.
Well, with receipts you have a 90 day window ... so if he's returning them within that window, then he's really not doing anything sketchy because that's really Home Depot's policy and intent. They tend to be pretty lax with returns. He may have brought the receipts, been outside of that window, and the cashier simply told him to take away the receipts because it was too long ago, scanned his driver's license, and ga…
She told me stories like someone coming in with a 3 year old, completely ripped shower curtain and getting a refund.
So to be honest, I'd have no problem believing that they'd refund cash old flowers at the end of the year.
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Pedantically, yes. Practically, no. Basically everybody in the US uses the phrase "zip-code" informally to mean postal code even when talking about international addresses.
I've never run across anyone in the U.S. who refers to postal codes as zip codes.