DHL Set To Use Drones In Delivery Project, Beating Amazon, Google

Logistics company DHL is using a drone to fly parcels to a German island, beating Amazon and Google to the punch.

USA Today
Sep 29, 2014

Logistics company DHL is using a drone to fly parcels to a German island, beating Amazon and Google to the punch. DHL, owned by Germany's Deutsche Post, will start delivering medicine and other urgent goods to Juist, a German island in the North Sea.

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