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

The blue Inverness Scout Post stamp: a white Scouts fleur-de-lis and the words Inverness Scout Post

Buy blue stamps

Our blue Scout Post stamps are 50p each, from local shops, our stamp stalls or your Scout group.

A Christmas card with a blue Scout Post stamp going into a yellow post box

Stamp your cards

Write the full address with the postcode, and stick a blue stamp on each card.

A row of yellow Scout Post boxes ready to go out to shops

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
The shaded area is where we deliver. Each pin is a shop with stamps and a yellow post box, coloured by area. Open in Google Maps (opens in a new tab)