Amazon and Audi team up to put the boot into online orders

First, Amazon trialled delivering parcels using aerial drones.

However, that does not get around the perennial difficulty of not being home when your parcel is delivered.

It’s all well and good your stuff being whizzed to you by a fancy drone but you still have to be in when the contraption lands in your garden (or lowers the parcel on a wire to prevent drone-theft).

Now, the online retail giant is trying another novel way of getting goodies to customers – one that doesn’t require you to be in.

Imagine leaving work at night to find your order sitting safely in the boot of your car.

That is the vision behind Amazon’s latest wheeze.

Audi has teamed up with the retailer to test a system that has orders delivered directly to the boot of your car.

The DHL delivery driver is given an access code that opens the boot of your specially-equipped Audi.

It is a temporary code and only works once. Customers can also return packages the same way, simply leaving them in their boot and having them whisked away.

It is a pilot project being tried out in Germany but if it’s successful and popular, Amazon says it will look at expanding it to other countries and across a range of car makers. Middle ground for greatness Where’s the worst place in the car to sit? In the middle in the back, of course.

You’ve no window, you’re squashed between people on both sides and there’s hardly any leg room.

However, this adversity may set you up for success later in life. Research commissioned by Skoda suggests highfliers were middle seat children. The study of more than 1,000 Brits with two or more siblings shows 90% of people in director level positions sat in the middle, plus nearly three-quarters (72%) of business owners and more than three-fifths (62%) of senior managers.

Picture: Audi Amazon customers in Germany can have their orders delivered to the boot of their car.