SubTropolis: The site of the Postal Service’s underground fulfillment center

NALC Postal Record – February 2023 It’s not Batman’s lair or an underground city in a dystopian zombie movie—it’s where the Postal Service stores stamps. SubTropolis is an enormous underground office and warehouse complex in Kansas City, MO, that houses the USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services (SFS) office. From its cavernous office, SFS ships hundreds of…

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PMG DeJoy meets employees at six facilities in Kansas and Missouri

May 12, 2021 Postmaster General Louis DeJoy visited Kansas and Missouri late last month, stopping — and sometimes shopping — at Post Offices, plants and other facilities. His first stop was the Kansas City, KS, Surface Transportation Center, followed by the Shawnee Mission Main Post Office in Mission, KS. In both locations, DeJoy addressed workers…

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USPS: Tunnel vision – Bloomberg Business visits underground postal facility

February 20, 2015 Postal Service employees who work at the Stamp Fulfillment Services (SFS) facility in Kansas City, MO, have a unique perspective on the world.  They work below it. The facility is located inside the SubTropolis, an underground industrial park that Bloomberg Business visited recently. The park, carved out of an excavated mine, is…

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