Washington, D.C.’s attorney general sued Amazon on Wednesday, accusing the company of covertly depriving residents in certain ZIP codes in the nation’s capital from access to Prime’s high-speed delivery.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing Amazon for allegedly misleading Prime membership holders in two wards to believe they had access to same-day, one-day, and two-day delivery speeds when they didn’t.

Amazon quietly carved out two Washington, DC zip codes from being serviced by its fastest Prime delivery service with its own branded trucks, outsourcing deliveries to slower services like UPS and the Postal Service,

The District of Columbia is alleging in a lawsuit that Amazon secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents who live in two predominantly Black neighborhoods in the city

Since 2022, the company has allegedly quietly excluded zip codes 20019 and 20020 from its own truck delivery service.

Washington, DC’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing Amazon for allegedly excluding certain ZIP codes from enjoying Amazon Prime’s speedy delivery. Schwalb claims that, beginning in 2022, Amazon stopped using its in-house delivery systems for Wards 7 and 8 while still charging those customers the same amount for a Prime subscription.

The D.C. Attorney General's Office (OAG) is suing Amazon for allegedly duping Ward 7 and 8 residents into paying for Prime membership delivery benefits they aren't actually receiving. The big picture: Amazon has since 2022 secretly withheld its quick delivery service to 48,