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

[Dwight Holmes]

and for 20738 it returns:


This ZIP Code™ is for a specific PO BOX.


The *preferred* city in 20738 is...

RIVERDALE MD


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Dwight Holmes <dwightrholmes at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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