MORE than 4,670 people have already put pen to paper in a bid to stave off a programme of post office closures across the county.
The action is in response to a Government-backed cost-cutting exercise to shut 22 of Oxfordshire's sub-post offices and limit the opening hours of five others.
One MP, Wantage's Ed Vaizey, has collected more than 250 letters.
The branches at Villiers Road, Bicester; Orchard Way, Banbury; and Grandpont, Oxford, have each tallied up more than 700 signatures.
Public meetings have also been held and some customers have measured the exact distance to their nearest branch in a bid to change management minds.
In the village of Stanton St John, east of Oxford, parish councillors are giving residents guidance on writing letters to Post Office Ltd and a community protest is planned.
At the village's under-threat branch, shop owner Mollie Ingrey said: "People have seen the post offices in Horton-cum-Studley, Beckley and other villages close, and they do not want this one to be the last to go.
"It will just kill the community completely. This is like a little centre of the universe for them."
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