PLEASANT HILL — The familiar boxy building does not look much different, but a lease sign on the Pleasant Hill post office building caused some customers to fear its closure. That is not going to happen.

Like post offices across the nation, the Pleasant Hill branch is minimizing expenses by retaining half as much office space and ignoring sidewalk landscaping.

“Most people take it personally when they see something happening to their post office,” Augustine Ruiz, U.S. Postal Service spokesperson notes. “They see us as a national icon.”

A potential rent increase and the precarious USPS financial situation are behind the change locally.

In Pleasant Hill, the postal service conceded 3,200 square feet, landlord maintenance of the interior and agreed to shared use of the rear loading dock area in order to keep its rent at a manageable level.

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