Kennedy Space Center post office closing after 58 years of postmarks

The Kennedy Space Center post office has been, well, cancelled. The contract facility, which was established at NASA's Florida spaceport on July 1,...

September 17, 2023
4:34 AM

The Kennedy Space Center post office has been, well, cancelled. The contract facility, which was established at NASA's Florida spaceport on July 1, 1965, will close permanently "near the end of the fiscal year," or sometime before Sept. 30. Since 2013, the post office has been operated for NASA by Post Masters Mail and Print Services, a division of the nonprofit Anthony Wayne Rehabilitation Center (AWRC). The agency's mail will now go through Cocoa Beach to Orlando for processing. But with the closure of the office, the public will no longer be able to request that stamped envelopes (called philatelic "covers") be postmarked with a cancellation device displaying the location of Kennedy Space Center.

Robert Z. Pearlman