Signed, sealed, delivered by drone, China students excited by flying university admission

A university in China has become the country’s first to deliver admission notices to students using drones.

On July 15, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) carried four admission letters from the South China University of Technology in the southern province of Guangdong to a residential area in the same district in Guangzhou.

The delivery, which covered a distance of around 7km, took the drone 40 minutes, about the same time it would have taken riding a bicycle.

The drone arrived at the destination safely, before a member of staff from China Post staff took the package off the UAV and delivered the letters to four students.

Tu Sulan, the first student to receive her package, was admitted as a chemistry major.