Drones Start Mail Delivery To Fukushima
People have slowly started making their way back to Fukushima, years after the earthquake and tsunami disaster that took place in the region. The cleanup is still ongoing though and is years away from being over, but there are a growing number of people who have started moving back to the region over fear that they would lose their housing subsidies.
It is still going to be a very long road to full recovery, but slowly there are efforts being made to try and bring life and commerce back to the area.
One Fukushima inn, known as the Yumori Onsen Hostel, has taken to drastically cutting their prices and amenities in an attempt to attract tourists to the area. To stay overnight at this hotel it's estimated to cost around $31 US or 3,500 yen.
They are taking a different approach than some other hotels in the region, who have opted to embrace offering a myriad of services that might attract tourists back to the hotel. For the Yumori Onsen, they plan to be fully operational by December after only starting their trial operations in early October.
It's not going to be easy to attract people back to the Fukushima region, it could take a great deal of time before they have a thriving economy in that region again.
Due to the labor shortage in the area, it's reported that Japan Post Co. has now turned to using drones to conduct deliveries in the region. It's alleged that the drones will be making deliveries at least 6 days every month and they've already started officially delivering to Fukushima.
For now, it's believed that the drones will only make deliveries for their own Japan Post Co. documents and advertisements; traveling between 2 different post office locations in the Fukushima region.
It will likely be making at least 2 round-trip delivery missions every day.
Whether it's mail, pizza, groceries, or cannabis, various entrepreneurs worldwide have been eagerly pressing toward the prospect of having drones make all kinds of deliveries right to our doorstep.
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Such a very thoughtful innovation, few years back amazon had plans of incorporating drones for their deliveries. As a matter of fact, the world is changing fast and the way businesses are ran is also changing;every investor or entrepreneur wants to maximise profit and minimize losses, so every technological advancement unfolding in the course of carry out their business and will directly brings profits,cut down running cost will surely see light of the day. With drone introduction by Japan's postal service for their deliveries soonest other organisations will dash into the drone services. Best regard @doitvoluntarily
You see, this is a good use of drones/technology. It always amazes me how technology can be used for both good and evil. With the evil things, I despair. With the good things, I have such hope for humanity - we're so inventive, innovative and resourceful - we're wonderful problem solvers and can change the world. More of the latter, please!
the case with any tool, can be used for good or bad:) thx you for your comment
RE-MOTHA FUCKING STEEMED!!!
I'm a friend of Kevin Blanch. I post stuff about Fukushima all the time including Kevin's latest rants he's on if you know what I mean LOL. I've been trying to talk him into signing up for Steemit. He would do well here.
lol thx for the resteem, unfamiliar with kev blanch, is he a youtuber? what do the rants consist of?
Yes he is a youtuber. He puts out a video sometimes multiple videos a day. He is a walking talking encyclopedia! I got to meet him last year when passing through Ogden Utah. That is his home. We shot a video together that day and it is still up on his channel. You have to search through a yeah and a half's worth of videos to find it but it is there.
Kevin started a movement called the Post Ignorance Project. His website is http://thepostignoranceproject.com/
Find him on youtube.
this is a breakthrough in technology, it would be great if the vast majority of businesses worked with drones