Lucas Wayne Branstetter, 39, Kingdom City, will spend the next seven years in federal prison, after pleading guilty last year to robbing a postal employee.
U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough ordered the sentence, to be served without a chance for parole, during an appearance Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Jefferson City.
Because he has prior felony convictions, Branstetter was sentenced as a career offender.
Branstetter pleaded guilty on Sept. 18, 2014, to entering the Kingdom City postal facility last July 19 and presented a note to an employee that stated, "This is a robbery."
The postal employee placed $310 from the cash drawer into Branstetter's backpack. Branstetter then drove away from the post office on a motorcycle.
Tammy Dickinson, the U.S. attorney for Western Missouri, said in a news release court documents showed Branstetter was identified by a confidential source two days after the robbery - and he was arrested the same day in Laclede County for possessing stolen property, after sheriff's deputies responded to a call regarding a suspicious person sleeping behind a local church.
A stolen motorcycle was also parked behind the church.
And Branstetter was named in an active arrest warrant from Blue Springs for forgery.
Court records show Branstetter has been convicted previously of at least 12 felonies, including four prior burglary convictions and a felony conviction for robbery - as well as numerous misdemeanors.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Lynn, based on investigations by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Callaway and Laclede counties sheriff's departments.