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Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service launches in Baton Rouge this summer
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:42 am
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:42 am
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Amazon is bringing its Prime Air drone delivery service to Baton Rouge this summer.
Once it launches, the service will give customers a way to get small items delivered in as little as one to two hours.
Prime Air operations are set to begin mid-summer in Baton Rouge. The company says it will use autonomous drones that can fly more than 200 feet high and reach speeds of over 70 miles per hour.
How the service works
“This is an option that we’ve provided that customers have wanted that provides an ultra-fast, sub-two-hour, sub-one-hour, depending on the area, that we can deliver over 60,000 products that Amazon has to offer in our warehouses,” said Jeff Cleland, Amazon’s principal of Prime Air drone delivery.
Amazon says customers will use the service the same way they already shop online. Customers order eligible items about the size of a shoebox, weighing up to five pounds. They then select Amazon’s Baton Rouge drone delivery location and track the delivery online or in the app.
Amazon says between 12 and 20 drones will be housed in a new facility near the Cortana warehouse.
https://www.wafb.com/2026/04/23/amazons-prime-air-drone-delivery-service-set-launch-baton-rouge-this-summer/
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As of early 2026, Amazon Prime Air drone delivery typically costs $4.99 per delivery for Prime members and $9.99 for non-Prime customers.
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The drones are authorized to fly by the FAA. Amazon says the flight paths are safe. If the airspace becomes busy, the drones can use their sensors and cameras to avoid other aircraft in real time and get back to their path to safely deliver to the customer.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that Prime Air “operates out of eight Amazon facilities delivering to the following communities: San Antonio, Waco, Dallas, Phoenix, Detroit, Tampa and Kansas City, KS.“
ETA "NBR gonna steal them"
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 12:03 pm
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Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:43 am to Shexter
They’ll eventually have to also take the Loop
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:44 am to Shexter
How long before a usual suspect tries to steal it?
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:44 am to Shexter
Gonna get shot or stolen within a month
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:46 am to Shexter
I was about to type, “Who is that impatient?” then I remembered that the Hustler toy store on Bourbon St has a DoorDash counter.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:47 am to CR4090
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How long before a usual suspect tries to shoot it?
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:49 am to Shexter
People are going to use those things as target practice.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:49 am to Btrtigerfan
Medical Marijuana stores should do this if legal to deliver.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:50 am to CR4090
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How long before a usual suspect tries to steal it?
When comments about fatigue are becoming fatiguing.....
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:52 am to CR4090
Net gun snipers around Cortana.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:53 am to UserAlreadyExists
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Gonna get shot
My first thought as well.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:01 pm to Btrtigerfan
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I was about to type, “Who is that impatient?” then I remembered that the Hustler toy store on Bourbon St has a DoorDash counter.
The article mentions medicine for children and reduced traffic
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"I have three young kids, and if one of my kids is sick, I don’t want to have to put all three of them in the car and drive somewhere to get children’s Motrin or something like that. But if you can get this delivered to the house in under two hours, it really then becomes, like, a necessity for a family,” he said.
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Andrew Fitzgerald, senior vice president of strategy and research at the Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership, said the service could reduce traffic.
“If this lets you get a good you need without having to leave your house and run an errand, and if it possibly keeps cars and trucks off the road, that’s a huge plus for the region,” Fitzgerald said.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:04 pm to Shexter
how many reported ufo sightings will we get
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:06 pm to Shexter
We have a company that delivers food by drone, it's pretty cool and drops it right in your driveway.
Of course all the local Karens ran to facebook complaining about noise and saying they were hovering over their pools.
Same price you pay where ever you order from.
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Of course all the local Karens ran to facebook complaining about noise and saying they were hovering over their pools.
Same price you pay where ever you order from.
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Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:12 pm to Shexter
I wonder if it will have fake delivery dates as well..... every package now seems to arrive a day or two later than promised. "We're very sorry for the delay...."
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:13 pm to Btrtigerfan
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then I remembered that the Hustler toy store on Bourbon St has a DoorDash counter.
I mean, if there is ever a class of products time could be of the essence, that may be it.
Sure, you may have an urge to cook hamburgers on a new George Foreman grill. But you can probably wait a day or two for it to be delivered. However, if she's suddenly in the mood for something...different...you probably don't want to wait too long to get to it and risk "getting tired"
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:13 pm to Shexter
Can’t wait for the unforeseen unintended consequences.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:18 pm to Shexter
It will either be, stolen, shot at, or destroyed for parts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:26 pm to CR4090
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How long before a usual suspect tries to steal it?
Need an over/under of this
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:47 pm to CR4090
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How long before a usual suspect tries to steal it?
Probably not long, but it won't last long either as they have GPS. Someone dumb enough to try stealing one of these drones is not going to also be smart enough to know how to disable the GPS system on it.
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