[RP TownTalk] Community Message: Overnight Shooting on Carters Lane

[Dwight Holmes]

A bit of history:  At my urging, and with the help of then-council rep
Alice Ewen and Mayor Archer, we had a meeting several years ago with the
Postmaster for 20737 and a rep from USPS.  My #1 item was for USPS to at
least recognize the name of the town, "Riverdale Park", which they had not
done.  In fact, I only just now learned that they have finally added
"Riverdale Park" to their system (and this has been several years since
that meeting).  Previously, anything with "Riverdale Park" in it would be
rejected as an unrecognized address, and this of course affected many other
commercial systems (like UPS) that keyed to the USPS zip code/town name
system.  Anyway, so that is progress!!  However, it seemed clear to me in
that meeting that item #2, getting a discreet zip code for the incorporated
town of Riverdale Park, was not going to happen.  I have no idea if
Jonathan's suggestion of applying the local P.O. box zip code of 20738 to
the town fits within their policies (they may have a standard that all P O
boxes have their own zip code??? I have no idea.). Seems like a nice, easy
fix to the problem.  But I will predict that this will take considerable
political muscle to make it happen - if it can happen at all.  Not sayin'
it can't be done - just sayin' :)

Here's what a lookup at usps.com for 20737 shows now - it used to only list
RIVERDALE MD as acceptable.

The *preferred* city in 20737 is...

RIVERDALE MD
Other *acceptable cities* for 20737 are

RIVERDALE PARK MD

RIVERDALE PK MD


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Audrey Bragg <abragg7393 at aol.com> wrote:

> So, Jonathan, how do we get it changed?  Just tell us what we need to do
> and we will do it.
> audrey
>
> Audrey Bragg, Broker
> Gerrety & Bragg Real Estate, Inc.
> 301-277-1111 office
> 301-351-4222 cell
>   -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Ebbeler <jebbeler at efusionconsulting.com>
> To: 'towntalk at riverdale-park.org' <towntalk at riverdale-park.org>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 8:34 am
> Subject: [RP TownTalk] Community Message: Overnight Shooting on Carters
> Lane
>
>   Until we can get the USPS to change our zip code to 20738 (which is
> what exists on PO Boxes at the RP Post Office on US1) we are going to
> continue to have this problem as well as home valuation issues.  2/3 of the
> housing stock is in unincorporated Riverdale which drives down the value of
> real estate in the incorporated Riverdale Park.
>
>
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