UPS in my neighborhood has done something similar in Christmases past--they have trucks bringing in bulk and bicycle delivery doing house by house. I didn't notice it this year; I don't know if it was a failed experiment or if I just missed seeing them.
War is Boring has an interesting post about using unmanned aircraft as a weapon-truck wing-man instead of an independent operator: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/64b87d155545