RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Amazon says it is rolling out drone delivery of smaller, lightweight packages to 500 towns and cities this year — and the Raleigh-Durham area potentially could be the first North Carolina site in the expansion.
Already, the company is active in 13 cities with the company boasting hundreds of possible deliveries in a market per day. A Texas town even made headlines this week for noise complaints.
Amazon has confirmed the next four cities — the closest to North Carolina is Atlanta – in the future rollout of the service, which features delivery of packages up to 5 pounds. There’s no official word from Amazon about expansions beyond those four, which the company says will cut delivery times to as low as 30 minutes.
But, Amazon is advertising several drone jobs in the Raleigh-Durham area, along with one in Charlotte. Amazon has not confirmed any North Carolina expansion areas yet, but five central North Carolina jobs listed in Durham are advertised at the Morrisville Amazon facility, which is actually in Wake County, near Raleigh-Durham International Airport…