Amazon will refund residents of two D.C. ZIP codes in Ward 7 and Ward 8 $7.25 million after the District’s attorney general says the company secretly excluded Amazon Prime customers from the expedited delivery service they paid for.⁠ ⁠ The Office of D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb and Amazon reached a settlement, the office announced Thursday. D.C. sued the retail giant in 2024.⁠ ⁠ Schwalb’s office said Amazon “violated DC consumer protection law by secretly excluding two DC ZIP codes east of the Anacostia River from Amazon’s in-house, Amazon-branded delivery services — significantly slowing Prime deliveries to those areas — while continuing to charge tens of thousands of DC residents living there the full Prime subscription price.”⁠ ⁠ Amazon admitted no fault in the settlement and said it made delivery decisions in D.C. based on safety concerns at the time.⁠ ⁠ “The safety of our customers and the drivers delivering to them has always guided our operational decisions — full stop,” ...