Scout Post 2026 is on
Send your Christmas cards for 50p
Buy a blue Scout Post stamp, pop your cards in one of our yellow post boxes, and local Scouts will deliver them by hand across Inverness, Smithton, Culloden, Balloch and Westhill. Last posting day: Wednesday 9 December.
Scout Post
50p
per card
Key dates
Stamps cost
50p
per card
On sale from
Friday 13 November
Last posting day
Wednesday 9 December
Boxes close at 5pm. Deliveries Delivered by Sunday 20th December.
How it works
Buy blue stamps
Our blue Scout Post stamps are 50p each, from local shops, our stamp stalls or your Scout group.
Stamp your cards
Write the full address with the postcode, and stick a blue stamp on each card.
Post in a yellow box
Our yellow boxes are in the same shops that sell stamps. Scouts collect, sort and deliver the cards.
We deliver Christmas cards across Inverness, Smithton, Culloden, Balloch and Westhill only. Please write the full address, including the postcode, on every card.
Where to buy stamps and post cards
Stamp stalls
- Tesco Inshes – Sat 28th & Sun 29th November
- Tesco Inshes – Sat 5th & Sun 6th December
Shops and post boxes
City centre & riverside
Places: 4- By the River Café @ Highland Hospice
- Good Craic Café, High Street
- Queensgate Shoe Repairs
- Spar, Montague Row
Crown, Haugh & Raigmore
Places: 5- Chalky’s, Haugh Road
- Crown Stores
- Morrisons Daily, Culcabock Road
- Royal Voluntary Service Shop
- Scotmid, Mackintosh Road
Culloden, Balloch, Smithton & Westhill
Places: 4- Nisa Local, Cradlehall
- Rowlands Pharmacy, Keppoch Road
- Scotmid, Balloch
- Scotmid, Woodside Village
Dalneigh, Kinmylies & Telford
Places: 4- Co-op, Telford Street
- Dalneigh Pharmacy
- Livingstone Pharmacy, Kinmylies
- Scotmid, Glenurquhart Road
Hilton, Lochardil & Ness-side
Places: 7- Drummond Stores, Culduthel Road
- Lochardil Pharmacy
- Nisa Local, Tomatin Road
- Scotmid, Balloan Road
- Scotmid, Green Drive
- Scotmid, Hilton Village
- Tesco, Ness-side
Inshes, Milton of Leys & Eastfield
Places: 3- Co-op, Milton of Leys
- Tesco, Eastfield Way
- Tesco, Inshes
Map of shops and our delivery area
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- Delivery area