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Failed Delivery Receipts From Our Future

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Today, we took a moment to imagine the not too-distant future promised by Amazon, where all our packages would arrive borne upon the backs of flying robots, a mere thirty minutes after we ordered them. But what, then, of the humble delivery receipt? Surely that simple artifact would not survive into so grand future? Well, perhaps.

https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-delivery-drone-that-could-be-showing-up-at-y-1474718537

Commenter procrastinationathon alerted us to this tweet from QuantumPirate, “I missed an Amazon drone delivery,” complete with accompanying imagined receipt. Here’s the full copy, covering all the possible bases from lack of a decent landing pad all the way up to an oncoming robot revolution, though (sadly) not a second delivery attempt:

Delivery receipt image: QuantumPirate

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