Drone Delivery Services Are Booming In China

SF Express delivery drone. (Credit: Weibo) While companies like Amazon are chomping at the bit to launch drone delivery services in the United States, packages are already soaring through the air in China. Two years ago, residents in the city of Dongguang spotted experimental SF Express-branded delivery drones hovering overhead with packages in tow. SF Express is the country’s largest mail carrier, and it presently delivers roughly 500 packages a day via drone. Now, the company says it plans to expand its services and double the number a packages it sends each day, according to a Chinese news report. The state of drone couriers in China couldn’t contrast more with the situation here in the United States.