Staging unmanned aerial vehicles at merchant facilities

A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) package delivery system, comprising:

• a cabinet adapted for deployment inside a merchant facility, the cabinet configured for storing and charging a plurality of UAVs on-site at the merchant facility remote from a command and control of the UAVs, the cabinet including:
• a plurality of cubbies, the cubbies each sized and shaped to receive one of the UAVs;
• power circuitry configured for charging the UAVs when the UAVs are stowed within the cubbies;
• communication circuitry configured for communicating with the UAVs when the UAVs are proximate to the cabinet or stowed within the cubbies, the communication circuitry further configured to communicate with the command and control;
• and
• a controller including logic that when executed by the controller causes the UAV package delivery system to perform operations including:
• retrieving status information from the UAVs;
• relaying the status information to the command and control;
• and
• relaying mission data between the command and control and the UAVs to assign delivery missions to the UAVs and to extract mission logs from the UAVs.