Royal Mail To Trial Drones For Package Deliveries To UK Islands 3 minute read UK mail delivery service Royal Mail is set to start flying packages over 70 miles to the Scilly Isles by drone. Once packages arrive at the islands, they will be divided up before smaller drones will deliver them to their relevant destination. Royal Mail is trialing drones for deliveries to islands. Photo: Chris Gorman – Royal Mail. The idea of package deliveries via drone is nothing new. For a long time, package giant Amazon has been openly interested in the technology. In late August 2020, Simple Flying reported that Amazon had even received clearance from the FAA to begin drone trials. Now it seems as though the boxed goods giant has some competition from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.