And with cryptocurrency, payment to the individual people worldwide serving as drop-couriers in an end-to-end dropgang network become perfectly possible.
Whether unrapping layers of scannable qr-code hop-by-hop, distributed blockchain based hop-tracking and payment services, smart contracts, etc. Infinite options arise. There is no "law" that can ever be against the harmless human right to transfer a letter / parcel / datapack / physible / knowledge from person to person, peer to peer, location to location. Same goes for ridesharing, abodesharing, etc. Anyone can startup such alternative delivery networks today. Tap that app! > Interesting idea about drone-driven mailbox-loader! A single drone might be able to do it with some sort of handle grappling, electromagnet, slide ramp, slot shooting. > the mail will go through the USPS, and they have the > opportunity to photograph (and weigh?? and X-ray???) it. Photo is not an "oppurtunity", it is an "is already done" spying surveillance by USPS. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photographing-all-us-mail.html https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/31/the-post-office-will-now-email-you-photos-of-your-mail-before-its-delivered/ > Even if it doesn't involve advanced concepts like drones, it is an > extraordinary advance, mostly made possible by the ubiquitous availability > of GPS and other GNSS signals. I would guesstimate that at least 1% of a > city or town's surface area would be suitable for placing a drop. With hops for more valuable contents being placed outside the human footfall traffic of the cities... in woods, parks, mountains, water, sky balloons.
