It's Dan Lyons. He's grasping.

> I doubt he's missed the mark since there's not many other logical reasons for Amazon to announce this possibility five years in advance.

Getting public support early so they have an easier time of getting the legislation passed to make this possible.

Getting public support early so they can get people thinking/accepting of drop off locations in and around their homes and businesses.

Getting people interested in working for a forward thinking company, and therefore attracting engineers wanting to work on interesting things.

But no. It's just marketing hype.

You know what is purely hype in order to get page views? This article by Lyons.

Whether or not it's hype isn't at issue. Hype can exist for real things. Sure, this may be a very well timed reveal, and it's probably not an accident. But that doesn't make the idea any less real.