WEST Devon and Torridge MP Geoffrey Cox this week launched a campaign to encourage local people to become involved in the official public consultation on Post Office closures in their area, which begins on May 20. The campaign will involve the delivery of thousands of leaflets to the public. The MP will also launch a specially designed website, giving details of each threatened post office branch in the constituency and advice on how to respond to the consultation. The website will also enable local residents to send their responses directly to the Post Office consultation team. The MP, who has fought a vigorous campaign against the closures, last month met the 'network change team' in charge of the closure programme in Devon to press the case for rural post offices. Mr Cox was due to meet Post Office Limited executives in Westminster yesterday (Wednesday), to be briefed on the identity and number of threatened sub post-office branches in Torridge and West Devon. The Post Office Ltd has said the nature of the public's response to the consultation could make a difference to the final plans.  Mr Cox said: 'Nothing said in the House of Commons could persuade the Government from the pointless harm of allowing a swathe of new post office closures in rural communities. 'Now, we must fight for our local post offices, and make clear, by the overwhelming weight of public response, our disgust at its action, the value of individual branches to our communities, and our determination that, if it is up to public feeling and support, not a single post office would close in Torridge and West Devon.'  The MP, who made an impassioned plea for rural post offices in the House of Commons last month, particularly singled out an elderly resident in a local village to whom he had recently spoken. He said: 'The lady, whom I will not name, rides in an electric buggy for disabled people. 'It is 3.9 miles to the nearest post office, if her local post office closes. 'How is she to get there? There is one bus a day. She would have to remain in the other village all day waiting for the bus, merely to buy a stamp or send a parcel. 'Or, as the lady told me, she will set out in her buggy around the winding roads with their pits, holes and divots for the nearest village 3.9 miles away. 'I fear for her. She means it, and she will try, but is that what the Government want? Anyone who wants to visit the website, which will be live from Monday, can find it at http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/postoffices ">www.geoffreycox.co.uk/postoffices ;