The Almaden Valley post office in South San Jose remains closed a year after an arson left part of the building destroyed.<\/p>\n
The arson occurred in July 2025 when Richard Tillman, the brother of former NFL player Pat Tillman, crashed a car with flammable logs into the post office. Based on the building’s appearance today, the post office appears to be a long way out from reopening.<\/p>\n
Residents and officials have voiced frustration with how long the repair process is taking.<\/p>\n
“Seems unreasonable that they couldn\u2019t fix the damage in this amount of time,” resident Bob Burriss said.<\/p>\n
Congressman Jimmy Panetta said he pressured the United States Postal Service to speed up repairs and finally received a completion target date. First it was the spring of 2027, but that has since been pushed to August 2027.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the USPS said the facility will reopen when the necessary work is completed and it is deemed safe for staff and customers.<\/p>\n
Residents in the area currently have to travel about six miles to the closest USPS location in Willow Glen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Almaden Valley post office in South San Jose remains closed a year after an arson left part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-408751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}