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Tatiana Sataua

Amazon, Uber, DoorDash, and Walmart are taking the delivery wars to the skies

(Credit: Joseph Ciembroniewicz/Omaha World-Herald via Getty Images)

Forget raining cats and dogs: In America’s increasingly crowded skies, it may soon be packages and takeout food falling from above.

For one Texas woman, the future has already arrived, though perhaps not exactly as Amazon intended. Lindsey Austen was expecting an Amazon delivery by drone Monday when she heard it approaching her home in Richmond, Texas, and ran outside to record the delivery. Instead, she watched as the package dropped straight into her backyard pool.

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