In the coming months, San Antonio will look more like The Jetsons' Orbit City. On Monday, November 17, Amazon announced that its Prime Air drone delivery service is officially live.

The service is designed for ultra-quick deliveries within a seven to eight-mile radius of its East Side facility at 6806 Cal Turner Dr. Out of onions for your gumbo recipe or a copy of Snoop Dog's gastronomic opus, From Crook to Cook? Prime Air can deliver it, along with hundreds of other lightweight items, in an hour or less.

The battery-powered drones are not intended to replace human drivers. Heavier packages and bulk orders will still be handled traditionally. The dispatches are also limited to one item per customer and cost $4.99-$9.99, depending on Prime membership. It's better for household mini-emer

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