Amazon testing drones to drop prescription meds at your door

I wholeheartedly agree with you, Mel!

Mailorder pharmacy deliveries have been a common thing for a number of years now. The military has pretty much twisted our arms to use their mailorder pharmacy option. They've canceled contracts with small, hometown pharmacies, and cut back on the number of items stocked at installation pharmacies.

As a result, I've had Rx drugs put in my mailbox (in front of my house, with my house number easily seen in big, reflective numbers) that belonged to the retired NCO across the street, and to an elderly service member who lives on the next street over behind my house. Yes, I did the right thing and took the pills to each of them. I was ordering my bp med that way for maybe 2 years, because I was told I had to do it that way if I wanted that particular drug because it was no longer stocked at the on-post pharmacy. Some change occurred & the mailorder pharmacy no longer carried my bp med. They tried hard to get me to change but - that med works, and that's the pill I want. I wouldn't bend so I got permission to go back to my local off-post pharmacy.

I much prefer to go to the pharmacy in-person, whether on-post for my thyroid med or off-post to the small, private pharmacy that is no longer supported at all for my bp med (I pay out of pocket for my bp med these days - and have for a couple of years now, but it's inexpensive and it works so no reason to change!).

Hard to believe a drone delivery experience would be much different than having a mail-delivery person shove a package in my unsecured mailbox. Don't think I want to get my meds either way.