Tour of the USPS Plant in Eagan

Join the DCR Chamber and Eagan Rotary for a tour of the Eagan USPS Plant on Wednesday, October 17th!  Due to limitations for parking, DCR Chamber Members will meet at the DCR Chamber Office (1121 Town Centre Drive, Suite 102, Eagan) by Noon and carpool to the plant together.   Tours of the plant begin at 12:30pm. 

YOU MUST RSVP TO THIS EVENT AND MEET AT DCR, CARS TO PLANT WILL BE LEAVING NO LATER THAN NOON!

The St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center in Eagan opened in October, 2010, replacing a facility in downtown St. Paul. It handles sortation and transportation of originating and destinating mail for most of eastern Minnesota and the western third of Wisconsin.
 
At the facility, more than 900 employees and more than 50 state-of-the-art pieces of processing equipment cancel and sort more than six millions letters and up to 500,000 flats (large envelopes, magazines, etc) each day.
 
The St. Paul P&DC in Eagan is equipped with 128 dock doors accommodating up to 500 trucks each day. The doors feature a new dock plate system that enhances safe operation, saves energy and produces a more comfortable work area.
 
The St. P&DC in Eagan meets Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) requirements. LEED certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building is environmentally responsible and a healthy place to work.
 
Fun Facts: The New St. PaulProcessing and Distribution Center

• The total soil removed from the site would fill the Foshay Tower twice. 
• 400,000 pounds of concrete were crushed and reused on the project site.
• 35 hockey rinks would fit on the roof. 
• Enough cast in place concrete was used to fill an entire football field 10 feet high.
• The expanded building is just shy of one mile in circumference. 
• The total weight of the steel used is 2,500 tons, the equivalent of 700 full-size pickup trucks or 3,125 SMART Cars.
• More than 69 miles of electrical wire was used in the expansion. 
• The amount of rebar used in the cast in place concrete laid end-to-end is 290 miles. It would circle the Daytona International Speedway 116 times.