Sadly the article just quotes a Verge article (http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/3/5169878/ups-is-researching...) which itself just quotes some anonymous people at UPS, and then has a couple of people's reactions to the rumors. So not very interesting.

I guess the Techcrunch article adds some predictable jokes and a meme illustration, leaving us to ponder the idea of what our grandparents would think about this article--premise, illustration, and all. Or better yet, the idea of our grandparents being shown this article in 1963 by some future-man. The notion of a future flying delivery robot would have been passe--it's the illustration that would have blown their minds.