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Comment by BurningFrog | Hacker News Reader

My building has a very safe package delivery location: The roof.

If we could get our packages delivered there, fewer would be stolen, and there wouldn't be drivers trying to get in the front door and failing all day.

If only 10-20% of delivery addresses have such a location, it's enough to start meaningful delivery to those places in cities.

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If one drone can drop it on the roof, can't another one take it away ? Pirate drones!

Captain Drone Sparrow!

This would actually be a thing.

Roof-based drone counter-measures. See? An unnecessary, job-creating industry is born.

How do I invest in the nascent combat drone industry?

See the recent Armenia vs Azerbaijan conflict for a list of combat drone companies to invest to ? ;-)

As someone who lives on the -1st floor of a forty floor building I am strongly opposed to this approach - I'd rather have installable balcony landing pads be the required solution.

Then you should not choose that delivery mode for your orders.

I think 10-20% might be an overestimate, at least in my experience in the US. I don't think I've ever been in a building that has an accessible roof. Maybe if you could precision target second-story balconies you'd get 10-20% in some regions?

It depends on your locale - in southern cities this number is going to be quite a lot higher than 10-20% since a decent number of even detached houses have flat roofs because snow isn't a thing - but heading into northern altitudes only apartment/condo towers will tend to have a flat roof (and some of them even have peeked roofs due to the snow).

By "such a location" I mean a reasonably safe and drone accessible spot to drop packets. Not only my specific roof situation.

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