CAMPAIGNERS are urging people to make their voices heard as the battle to save Medway’s Post Offices reaches its climax.

A six-week public consultation into the profitability of four branches comes to an ends next week.

Branches in High Street, Brompton, Station Road, Rainham, Bingham Road, Strood and Byron Road, Gillingham have all have been deemed surplus to requirements

They could be shut as soon as January 2008.

Post Office chiefs have promised to listen to pleas to save the branches but after Monday, November 12 it will be too late.

Campaigns have been launched to save each of the Post Offices.

Members of the Brompton Conservation Association and The Old Brompton Village Traders Association have collected more than 1,000 signatures calling to save their local branch.

A similar campaign has been launched at the Station Road Post Office in Rainham by branch manager Julie New who has also collected around 1,000 signatures.

Gillingham and Rainham MP Paul Clark has called to defend the branches, along with the post office in Byron Road, which also falls in his constituency.

He said: “People must get involved and I’m urging everyone to take part in the consultation, and to contact me with their views.”

Medway MP Bob Marshall Andrews has called to save the Bingham Road branch in his constituency and has written to Post Office chiefs demanding for the branch to stay open.

Medway Council has also sent a strong letter to the Post Office calling to save the four branches.