I've gotten over a dozen Amazon drone deliveries. The 35 seconds of noise are worth the convenience, novelty, and fun.

Tamara Hancock has placed over a dozen Amazon drone delivery orders since December 2024.

Courtesy of Tamara Hancock Tamara Hancock, 48, is a college professor and full-time content creator in the greater Phoenix area.

She's used Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service, which is expanding to 500 US cities this year.

She says the 35 seconds of noise the drones cause are worth the convenience, novelty, and fun.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tamara Hancock, who lives in the greater Phoenix area — one of the first areas to have access to Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service, which is expanding to 500 US cities by the end of the year.

She's used the service over a dozen times and enjoys it for the convenience and fun.

The following has been edited for length and clarity.

We live in one of the very first pilot areas in the US for Amazon drone delivery.

When I first saw that the service was available , I was like, "We're definitely trying this out!" I'm a professor and content creator, and the basis of the content on my channel is that I really like to learn and explore literally everything and find out how it works, from food to drone delivery.

My daughter's a clarinet player, and I found out that a package of reeds could be delivered by drone, so I thought, why not? It's not something super fragile that, if dropped from a height, would break.

I ordered it, picked the drone delivery option for $2.99, and immediately went to my backyard to wait the hour or so for the delivery.

When the drone came, I hid myself partially under a tree, because if the optics on the drone sense a human or an animal, it will abort delivery and leave so that it doesn't hurt anybody or anything.

After the package dropped, I took it inside, and we unpackaged everything.

Everything was intact and great.