Anything you can do I can do better is seemingly the motto of the creative ornithological solutions department at Waterstones.

Imma deliver your books (Picture: YouTube)

The book store has responded to Amazon’s claim that it plans to deliver orders via its own drone service by announcing the creation of a fleet of specially trained postal owls.

Wait… is he really the press manager at Waterstones? (Picture: YouTube)

‘As booksellers with an innate knowledge of all birdlife, the solution [to delivery times] was simple – owls,’ said the suspiciously named press manager Jon Owls.

Coming to a sky near you (Picture: YouTube)

Although each delivery will cost only £2.75, the Ornithological Waterstones Landing Service (or OWLS), will also not be available immediately, as ‘it takes ages to train owls to do anything and we only just thought of it this morning’.


Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all owl (Picture: YouTube)

You can read a more in-depth Q&A about the owl delivery service on Waterstones’s site, including whether this is actually how Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds started and if Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s lawyers have been in touch.

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