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I've had amazon deliveries where it appears the whole family was in the car. Kind of heart breaking to think that a family of 4 has to drive around so I can get my AA batteries same day. We need drone deliveries.

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> We need drone deliveries.

Yes, obviously that will solve the problem that family faces.

When my parents brought me to Canada, my dad briefly worked as a pizza delivery driver and me and my mom would often ride with him just to keep him company. Not sure if that's the case here, but they might just be spending time together.

Can I choose option C? :). I don't want drones buzzing around my neighborhood. I am 100% willing to pay for professional delivery drivers.

To be fair, I guess, the days of random people driving junky old compact sedans filled to the roof with Amazon packages seems to be gone in my area. All the Amazon deliveries are now done by a guy driving a large Sprinter van painted glossy gray with Prime written on the side.

I'm in Canada so we don't yet have the Amazon branded delivery drivers. In my city, many Amazon packages are delivered by a company called Intelcom. It's people driving around their own cars, delivering packages.

I've seen plenty of couriers with their families inside riding around with them delivering food. Sometimes just a guy and the younger son? who hops out, picks up the food, and the dad drives off to deliver the item. It makes me sad.

Friend of a friend has the same issue, works for Instacart or one of the grocery delivery services. With their kids in the car. And they spend their days waiting in grocery store parking lots as that maximizes their throughput.

Not for nothing, but more than drone deliveries, we need to make sure families like this have access to daycare for their kids.

That's an interesting point. You might be able to argue that subsidizing day care - particularly if you could bring higher standards/efficiency along for the ride - could have a greater economic impact than subsidizing college. It would certainly win out in short term effects. [Although I do think most of a bachelor's degree should be attainable from home for little to no cost.]

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