Manna ceasing drone delivery flights

There are a couple of arguments in favour of drone deliveries; one is environmental impact, i.e. CO2/pollution, and the other is congestion/safety on the roads. But it always struck me that the latter argument hinged on an assumption that deliveries mainly happen in ICE cars which cause the most traffic congestion, pollution, and danger. But they don't; and a lack of regulation of food couriers is not an argument in favour of bringing in a new system which would require far more regulation.

Speed would be another benefit, and that could see most benefits in medical applications; e.g. getting a defibrillator to a site quickly.

However, I see multiple drawbacks. The first is the most 'emotional' reaction. I just see the idea of having a coffee delivered to your house as incredibly lazy. Real 'humans in wall-e' stuff. Yes, it's a more efficient way of getting things moved around but I suspect that would then be outweighed by a massive surge in deliveries of utterly trivial items.

The main issues I have is that we already have a taxpayer funded infrastructure for delivering items to houses, a system that is in place and will remain in place no matter how much drone deliveries would take off. But that's clearly not enough, as well as having granted so much public space to the movement of people and goods by path and road, that we might be expected to cede the air not far over our heads to it too. My neighbour gets a delivery to their house - I don't hear a thing, I'm not aware of it in the slightest unless I happen to be looking out the front window at the time. If my neighbour gets a drone delivery, I know about it. Especially if I'm in my back garden.

And that leads on to another point; We've created spaces, public and private, part of whose function is to get away from the bustle of roads. I'm obviously talking about gardens and parks and the like; I live on a busy road and knew full well when I bought it that it was a busy road but the fact that it has a big back garden was going to offer us relief from that. But the idea that that space could also be 'commandeered' by drone deliveries sticks in the craw as a result.

And that idea is even more pronounced in public parks; where people might go for a walk or a bit of headspace, or whatever reason they have for being there; to have that space used for commercial activity is just wrong too.

And that's not even going into the business practices of Manna, who were trying to move faster than the wheels of government were operating, to avoid the debates like the above from happening in good time...

There are plenty of issues with the gig economy and how those guys are treated.