{"id":20053,"date":"2019-11-08T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20053"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T17:09:13","slug":"ups-made-history-last-week-used-a-drone-for-the-first-time-to-deliver-prescription-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20053","title":{"rendered":"UPS made history last week used a drone for the first time to deliver prescription drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The company partnered with CVS to deliver drugs to two customers\u2019 homes in Cary, N.C., using the M2 drone system by UPS partner and drone systems developer Matternet. UPS and CVS plan to use more drones for deliveries in the coming months \u201cto bring to market the speed and convenience advantages\u201d of the tools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis drone delivery, the first of its kind in the industry, demonstrates what\u2019s possible for our customers who can\u2019t easily make it into our stores,\u201d Kevin Hourican, president of CVS Pharmacy, said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mqqsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvbntcsw_mnbcnnyqylcnbycdpwwp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mqqsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvbntcsw_mnbcnnyqylcnbycdpwwp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573317998510000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFeO9KH2Xd_xtj7e6yvcFu0bfpHzQ\">in a statement<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCVS is exploring many types of delivery options for urban, suburban and rural markets. We see big potential in drone delivery in rural communities where life-saving medications are needed and consumers at times cannot conveniently access one of our stores.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. The company partnered with CVS&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20054,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20053\/revisions\/20054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}