Post Office closure 'devastating blow'
Zac Sherratt/BBCA Surrey Post Office is the latest to shut its doors as 52 close across the country.
Burpham Post Office will close on Saturday, a move that local councillor George Potter has labelled a "blow to the community".
The closing Post Office stores are run by Morrisons, which blames the closures on rising costs.
The Post Office said it was not its decision to close the branches and it was "working hard to find solutions as quickly as possible as we fully recognise the inconvenience this will cause our customers".
Potter said the Post Office had "helped for years make Burpham a place where actually you could do pretty much everything on your doorstep".
He said in recent years the village has also lost its pharmacy and doctor's surgery.
Potter said the closures meant "you're forced to travel out of the community and every time people have to travel out of the community to do something, you just gradually lose a little bit of that community spirit as well along the way".
"We're really hoping that somebody will come along and take over the empty building and bring the Post Office back."
Local retailers and business owners have been encouraged to apply to run the vacant Post Office.
The Post Office said there were expressions of interest for all branches and it was checking the suitability of the premises and the applicants.
Which other Post Offices are closing?
The other Post Office stores closing in the region are in Camberley, Guildford, Fleet, Woking, Heatherside, Horley, Crawley, Chessington and Surbiton.
Horley is set to lose its Post Office on 3 October.
Andy Lynch, the Reform UK group leader on Surrey County, said its closure would be "devastating" for the town.
"You've got a 20 minute journey to the nearest alternative and that's not really good enough," he said.
Morrisons said it had identified a number of stores whose performance had been "challenged for a number of years" and which were loss making, despite remedial action.
"This situation has been exacerbated in more recent years by significant cost increases," a Morrisons spokesperson said.
"Having completed the review, we are now proposing to take the tough but necessary decision to close a number of these stores over the next few months," they said.
