Amazon is now dropping off prescription medication via drones in Texas. Amazon pharmacy customers who are eligible can select free drone delivery in less than 60 minutes whenever they check out, ensuring that they skip waiting in line or having public conversations about one’s health.
Amazon’s website states, “A pharmacist will then ensure medications are loaded and transported to a customer’s home within the next hour.”
Amazon is one of the few companies that has earned a Federal Aviation Administration air carrier certificate. Amazon pharmacy members can drop their prescriptions off via drone with no additional delivery charge.
Currently, prescription medications by drone are only offered in College Station, Texas, but drone delivery will open nationwide in phases.