Amazon drone delivery costs customers $9.99 but Amazon a lot more
So far Prime Air has delivered “thousands” of packages in sunny College Station, Texas, and Tolleson, Arizona, where it recently expanded, in less than an hour. It aims to deliver 500 million packages a year by drone in under 30 minutes in 2029, The New York Times reports.
The program costs Prime members $9.99 per delivery ($15 if you’re not a member) but likely costs Amazon a lot more, though the company didn’t specify how “deeply unprofitable” it was. Business Insider reported on internal documents in 2022 that showed the e-commerce company would lose $63 a package in 2025.
For now the program can only deliver one item at a time and only during the day. It’s noisy and the drones require 3 square meters of open space where they can hover in and drop the delivery.
The program costs Prime members $9.99 per delivery ($15 if you’re not a member) but likely costs Amazon a lot more, though the company didn’t specify how “deeply unprofitable” it was. Business Insider reported on internal documents in 2022 that showed the e-commerce company would lose $63 a package in 2025.
For now the program can only deliver one item at a time and only during the day. It’s noisy and the drones require 3 square meters of open space where they can hover in and drop the delivery.
