Scremerston and North Sunderland Post Offices are to close and their loss will not be compensated for.
Ancroft, Bamburgh, Doddington, Lowick, Milfield, and Norham Post Offices have been recommended for replacement with an 'outreach' service, a mobile van visiting for a few hours several days a week.
Users of Scremerston and North Sunderland Post Offices are expected to use the nearest Post Offices, in the case of North Sunderland, the nearest is in Seahouses, just over half a mile away, but for Scremerston users the alternative is located in the Co-op in Tweedmouth, just over two miles away.
Local MP Sir Alan Beith has been making contact with all the affected Post Offices to talk to the postmasters and postmistresses about their views, and will be making representations to the Post Office as part of the consultation process. Sir Alan has also written to all the parish councils which are affected by the proposals.
Sir Alan has reviewed the proposals and has held a briefing meeting with representatives from the Post Office. He said: "In a number of cases these are well-used Post Offices which help to maintain village shops, and the loss of the permanent Post Office would not only be unjustified but also very damaging for the community.
"Even in the smaller communities the Post Office offers vital services and many people will feel that a visit from a mobile van will not be enough to replace their community Post Office. A few places will end up with no Post Office facilities at all, which is unacceptable."
Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Conservative parliamentary candidate, said: "It is shocking that this Government is intent on closing Post Offices in the Berwick constituency and that people will have their facilities removed. Outreach services are as good as shutting the Post Office down for our most vulnerable people.
"Though I fear that this consultation period is merely a Labour PR exercise, I will continue to fight for our communities to keep this vital service."
The Countryside Alliance has also urged people to make their views known during the consultation period.
Scremerston Post Office is currently open 23 hours a week, and according to the Post Office there are less than 200 'customer sessions' per week carried out. At North Sunderland, there are between 300 and 400 transactions a week, which are now expected to go to Seahouses Post Office, which already deals with between 500 and 750 a week.
At the Post Offices counters at Ancroft and Doddington, the Post Office state that they have less than 50 customers a week. At Norham however, between 200 and 300 transactions are carried out, which will now be executed in a mobile van, which will visit 10 hours a week over five days.
This week, Sir Alan visited Norham Post Office to discuss with postmistress Wendy Thackray the implications of the closure. Wendy told the Advertiser: "The closure is going to be very serious for us, the Post Office brings people into the shop and is a full-time wage too, and we've only just taken over in April. The Post Office didn't tell us then that we were going to be closing, just that changes were in the pipeline, we only found out on Saturday about this.
"My husband and I gave up our jobs to take on the shop and Post Office. It was actually my mum and dad's before that, 29 years with the shop and 16 years with the Post Office too until they retired in April. If the Post Office go ahead and close us my husband will have to go and get a full-time job, and I don't know what will happen with the part-time person we employ at the moment. I don't know what she'll do.
"It is a busy Post Office, that's why we can't believe why they are closing us, and we're a full time Post Office too. Everybody is up in arms about it. The people in the village can't believe it's happening.
"A mobile van is not suitable, especially for businesses, they need it here at certain times, not just two hours a day. Old people aren't going to want to queue in the winter for it either. I don't see a point in paying someone to come and do a job that we are already doing.
"We have a nice little village here with everything we need, and they are just taking it away a little at a time.
"We have a petition in the shop and have handed out leaflets with the address for where people can send their objections to. Hopefully with the villagers and Alan Beith behind us we might be saved."
Judith Herriott, postmistress at North Sunderland for the past 18 years told the Advertiser: "Personally I won't fight it as I am due to retire anyway. We can't have the shop without the Post Office, they go hand in hand, so they'll both close.
"It is a very sad day for the village though, but I can understand it, we are a busy Post Office, but Seahouses can handle the extra custom, I couldn't. Seahouses Post Office is more central and bigger, and I always knew it would be us rather than them to go.
"The villagers I've spoken to are sad but resigned to it. I've been lucky and have very loyal customers, but the Post Office as a whole has lost so much business over the years, with TV licenses going and a lot of people doing things over the internet now."
Adrian Wales, Post Office Ltd's network development manager for the north east, said: "Taking the decision to close any Post Office branch is always very difficult and we know it will cause concern to many of our customers. We want to ensure that everyone who uses, relies on, or has any concern with Post Office services is both fully aware of the proposed changes and able to give views on them.
"We believe these proposals offer the best prospect for a sustainable way forward for Post Office services in this area, bearing in mind the minimum access criteria and the other factors we have to take into account."