Washington Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing Amazon for excluding some zip codes from using Amazon Prime’s expedited delivery. Schwalb claims that starting in 2022, Amazon will stop using internal delivery systems for Wards 7 and 8, while charging those customers the same amount for Prime subscriptions. according to Census Correspondent, and 83 percent and 82 percent are Black, respectively.
Instead of using its own trucks, Amazon allegedly relied on UPS and USPS carriers for deliveries — a decision that resulted in longer delivery times. Only 24 percent of packages were delivered to these Chambers within two days. Schwalb also alleged that Amazon failed to notify residents of the 7th and 8th Wards of the changes.
Worryingly, this isn’t the first time Amazon has been called out for excluding predominantly black neighborhoods from the full benefits of Prime membership. Terrible 2016 in Bloomberg He noted that this practice is common in several metro areas. Amazon has since introduced free same-day delivery to Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, Chicago’s South Side, and New York’s Bronx.
