Airdrie & Shotts MSP Neil Gray has written to both the Post Office and CJ Lang & Son Ltd in a bid to stop the closure of Allanton Post Office.
CJ Lang has closed many of its in-shop post office across Scotland but, at that time, Allanton was not in the list.
However, following a review, the company has now decided that the village will lose that vital service.
The Post Office has stated that it is looking for alternatives but Mr Gray has requested a meeting with both them and CJ Lang in a bid to halt the closure, or find a workable solution to prevent constituents having to go without the service.
Mr Gray said: “For a village like Allanton, or any other village for that matter, to lose a vital service such as its Post Office is awful.
“I have asked for an urgent meeting with both the Post Office and CJ Lang & Sons Ltd to find a solution to this. In addition to asking for the meetings, I have lodged a Parliamentary Motion on the issue in a bid to get a resolution.”
A statement from CJ Lang & Son said it would continue to invest to ensure its stores served the communities in which they are based.
However, it said it regularly reviewed the impact of the Post Office counters on its overall store operations.
A Post Office spokesman said it was “disappointed” by the decision to close the counters, which it said was solely CJ Lang’s.
He said Post Offices played an “important role” for communities and it had worked hard to find a solution to keep them open.
“At certain locations, there are nearby alternative Post Office branches, but we recognise that for some particularly older and disabled people they may not be easily accessible,” he said.
“We will look for replacement solutions both on a temporary or permanent basis for those branches that close.”
