<div dir="ltr">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' :)<div>
<br></div><div>Here's what a lookup at <a href="http://usps.com">usps.com</a> for 20737 shows now - it used to only list RIVERDALE MD as acceptable.</div><div><br></div><div><h3 style="padding:0px 0px 20px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;font-size:1.6em;line-height:1;color:rgb(32,32,32)">
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RIVERDALE MD</p><h4 style="padding:20px 0px 4px;margin:0px 0px 8px;font-family:Arial;font-size:1.2em;line-height:1;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Other <u>acceptable cities</u> for <span class="" style="color:rgb(47,111,169)">20737</span> are</h4>
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RIVERDALE PK MD</p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Audrey Bragg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abragg7393@aol.com" target="_blank">abragg7393@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>So, Jonathan, how do we get it changed? Just tell us what we need to do and we will do it.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">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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