Your next Amazon package could come by drone as service expands to nearly 500 cities

It's a "sixfold increase" to the service, Amazon says.

Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Thursday to expand the airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities. Customers could receive the drone deliveries in as fast as 30 minutes, Amazon s

The planned rollout would represent a sixfold increase from Prime Air's current footprint across 11 metro areas

Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Thursday to expand the airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities.

Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Thursday to expand the airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities

Amazon has quietly expanded its drone service to more metro areas in recent months after receiving a key regulatory greenlight enabling longer-range deliveries.

Amazon set to expand drone delivery of lightweight packages to 500 US cities  AP News

Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Thursday to expand the airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities