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Packages weighing less than 5lb (2.2kg) and containing everyday items such as beauty products, batteries and cables are now being delivered within a 7.5 mile (12km) radius of Amazon's fulfilment centre.

Rob Shield let Amazon use an Airbnb on his farm for its first test runs. "Initially it was a novelty, so we were ordering everything under the sun," he says. "Pens, paper, chocolates - anything to make it keep coming."

"Since then, you obviously start realising 'I actually need something today' like tape measures and stuff like that you're always losing - we just order it and it comes."

"I think I'd rather somebody actually handed me my parcel than dropping it into my garden," one woman told the BBC, while another said she may try it once but then probably "stick to the old way".

"A lot of our demand for delivery services are in urban centres. They are very densely populated, very congested. And the reality is [drone deliveries] don't work well in high-rise buildings."