Red-zoning for real estate (as evidenced in both Baltimore and DC) are drastically different than avoiding warzones for delivery.<p>Also, only USPS can be made to deliver to warzones, and many commercial shippers (DHS, FedEx, UPS) use that route.<p>Same for Amazon Prime, Ebay, and Walmart delivery to use USPS for “certain address”.<p>Also there is a different “warzone” within DC (not covered by the article) where Feds preclear the packages of any hazardous materials.<p>Meanwhile, Amazon should fess up and not provide Prime memberships to those zipcodes.<p>source:<p>- (Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City, Antolia Pietila;)[<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Not-My-Neighborhood-Bigotry-American/dp/1566638437" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Not-My-Neighborhood-Bigotry-American/...</a>]<p>- (APOGuide: USPS, Guide for AAFES Suppliers)[<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/798340054/apoguide" rel="nofollow">https://www.scribd.com/document/798340054/apoguide</a>]
Key issue:<p>> “Amazon is charging tens of thousands of hard-working Ward 7 and 8 residents for an expedited delivery service it promises but does not provide. While Amazon has every right to make operational changes, it cannot covertly decide that a dollar in one ZIP code is worth less than a dollar in another,”