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> The Royal Mail is aiming to deploy a fleet of 500 drones to deliver mail to remote areas, starting with small islands like the Shetlands or Orkneys. Britain’s National Health Service is trialing drone delivery for medication, specifically chemotherapy drugs, to cancer patients living on remote islands; one such route would save patients a three to four-hour ferry ride to the mainland and back to pick up their medications.

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Sounds a little dangerous, if you're talking about mailing irreplaceable things (talking more like mementos or cheap collector's pieces, not something you'd actually insure and fedex) - or am I overvaluating a stray bird knocking down a drone over the sea, versus mail simply lost in transit?

Couldn't this also be solved with a freezer on the island (+ shipping larger quantities of these drugs regularly via whatever process usually brings parcels onto the islands).

I am not complaining about a drone highway, sounds great. It also sounds like quite an oversized hammer for that specific problem though.

Shetland and Orkney are both made up of lots of islands - many of them inhabited.

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