It's Amazon that proposed the drones, but it will never happen and in my educational estimation it was just ploy commercial to boost holiday sales as it came out a few days before Black Friday.
And yes this thread was a half hearted bouncy to take a jab at the non-unionized shippers. Which for some reason the OP doesn't show up below in the Topic summary but it is apparent by the "treating workers fairly" quote at the end of his rant.
Which as stated UPS is unionized and Fed-Ex isn't.