POST Offices at Milfield, Lowick, Ancroft and Doddington will shut their doors for the final time on Monday as the round of closures takes affect in this area.
After months of fighting the proposed cuts and then uncertainty over when the final closure date would be, the four offices will all shut on Monday.
Other offices hit by the closures in Berwick borough, including North Sunderland, Bamburgh and Screm
erston closed during 2008.
Brenda Brodie, sub-postmistress at Milfield said: "It seems to be hitting home hard, people seemed to be under the impression that we'd recover and get through this, but the closure is a week away, and people have been asking me when the outreach service is coming. It's been a pretty difficult day, all in all.
"I'm going to do my utmost best to keep the shop going and we do have a lot of passing trade. Staffing is going to be a problem, as without the Post Office we will need one less probably, so I not sure what I'm going to do there."
Brenda said that many of her older customers have expressed concerns about using the new mobile outreach service, which will visit the village five days a week.
"A lot of the older people seem worried about using the outreach service, but I've said to a lot of them that I'll go with them the first time," she said.
Sir Alan Beith told the Advertiser: "The Post Office's behaviour over closures in north Northumberland has been disgraceful and they still fail to recognise how badly they have treated local communities.
"Everyone knew there were going to be some Post Office closures but there seems to be no rationality about which ones were to close, and the consultation process has been treated with contempt.
"The one piece of good news is that the government has responded to the pressure we have put on them and saved the Post Office Card Account, on which so many people rely for payment of their benefits and pensions."
Sir Alan has continued to communicate with Post Office Limited over apparently 'misfiled' submissions during the consultation period, and had resorted to using the Freedom of Information Act to obtain copies of submissions made to Post Office Ltd.
Sir Alan believes that six submissions, including his own, in relation to the proposals for Norham Post Office, were not taken into account, and another 15 were not obviously logged or summarised by the Post Office during the consultation.
A spokesperson for Sir Alan said that there also seems to be evidence that the Post Office 'ignored or misfiled' everything sent to them about Scremerston Post Office.
Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that Norham Post Office will close on Monday, January 26, after Wendy Thackray and husband Ian were given an unwelcome early Christmas present, being told of the closure date two days before Christmas.
Norham will be served by the outreach van operating on the Scottish side, running from Coldstream, but as the closure dates for branches in Berwickshire have not yet been confirmed, the van will only run to Norham until the Berwickshire branches close.
The first outreach service to the closing branches is on Tuesday, January 13 at Milfield between 9.15am to 10.45am outside the old school, and at Lowick from 11am to 12.30pm in the car park at the White Swan.
Ancroft will be visited by the van at the car park behind the memorial hall between 10.45am and 11.45am on Wednesday, January 14, and Doddington at the dairy car park between 2.30pm and 3.30pm on Thursday, January 15.
