Residents in College Station, Texas, say Amazon's drone deliveries were 'invaded by some billionaire's insatiable desire to make even more money'

Amazon 's decade-plus quest to fly small items such as toothpaste and batteries to people’s yards in under an hour has yielded just thousands of deliveries.

The experience in College Station , Texas , has highlighted another challenge: NIMBYs .

Amazon plans to end its College Station lease on September 30 , potentially giving the frustrated communities quiet.

Amazon has said little about how it chose the location of its drone depot in College Station , Texas .

Amazon 's drone sector rivals, such as DroneUp and Alphabet ’s Wing, have made many more deliveries, mostly by operating out of commercial areas and forming partnerships with physical retailers.

Amazon says it hasn’t received any community complaints, and feedback from local officials has been positive.

The grounding followed two crashes of the roughly 80-pound drones, according to Bloomberg .

Amazon ’s Stephenson disputes the cause of the pause, saying it was initiated to “safely and properly conduct a software update” The accidents have introduced a new worry in College Station , Texas .