Here's another (brief this time, only two posts) summary of what the devs/reps said in the Japanese forums.
As usual, feel free to correct possible mistakes and consider this just a sneak peek of the official translations that will come at a later time.
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-They responded to a user that asked what was of the roadmap published long ago under the "tanaka administration" (mostly about the delivery NPC), saying that as Yoshida mentioned in one of the producer letters, the contents of those roadmap needed to be reviewed with the changes in the team, and each point requires individual consideration.
The delivery NPC is one of those points and it's one of those that they decided to actually implement.

-They also explained that the team is considering the effects of the interaction between anima and the fact that they will implement other means of movement that don't force the players to run around the whole place.

The compatibility between the two systems is being examined, because of the concern that teleporting might make other vehicles obsolete.