This holiday season, it is pertinent for online shoppers to receive their deliveries on time, and that’s what retailers also aim for.  Unfortunately, with millions of shoppers wanting the same thing, retailers are at their wit’s ends figuring how to deliver everything on time not to mention dealing with suppliers.

To fix this once and for all, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, has unveiled a revolutionary way of delivering packages in a 60-minute bit shown yesterday.

Charlie Rose, CBS’ 60 Minutes correspondent, and his team were granted access to Amazon’s operations, including how things work when shoppers hit that purchase button, Amazon Web Services, and how the company has grown tremendously from being an online book seller to what it is today.

During Sunday’s premier, Bezos and Dave Clarke, Amazon’s VP, showed how items get shipped from fulfillment centers to distributed centers across the country.

They also discussed Amazon’s same-day shipping for groceries and how that is a pretty expensive part of the operation but one it’s willing to undergo in order to keep its customers happy and keep coming back to use the service.

But now, Amazon has something better up its sleeve than same-day deliveries  – half-hour deliveries.  Using octocopters, a drone-like contraption that’s able to fly and carry packages within a 10 mile radius from its fulfillment center, Amazon aims to consign that waiting period of days or even weeks to history.

Amazon’s octocopters can carry packages under five pounds, making 86 percent of Amazon’s deliveries achievable in this way, states Bezos.  The octocopters will be autonomous, meaning no one will be controlling them. Instead, Bezos says that all that’s needed is to input the correct GPS coordinates, and the drones will get the packages to its customers.

Though the idea seems simple, it may take years before Amazon actually begins delivering packages in this way, as the company still has to figure out how not to drop packages on customer’s heads, the roof, the pool, or have some other people intercepting them.

“I know it can’t be before 2015, because that’s the earliest we could get the rules from the FAA. My guess is that’s, that’s probably a little optimistic. But could it be, you know, four, five years? I think so. It will work, and it will happen, and it’s gonna be a lot of fun,” Bezos stated when asked when’s the earliest people can expect the octocopters to be deployable.