Fife Scout Post 2025

 For many years, Scout movements in the UK have offered "Scout Post" services in which they deliver mainly greeting cards during the Christmas season. These offer a cheaper and charitable alternative to Royal Mail while sending cards locally.

 While the peak of these ended many years ago, and the Edinburgh one has been defunct for over 15 years, these still do occasionally pop up. This year, the nearest one to me that I could find was in Fife.

Fife Scout Christmas Post poster for 2025

  

I don't live in fife, but I left an envelope with a Royal Mail stamp and a post-it note asking for them to forward it here, after paying the 50p donation. Unfortunately no paper stamps were available, you just threw in a donation and chucked the envelope in a transparent box.
Cover with "SCOUTPOST" pictorial postmarks forwarded to Edinburgh

 

 

I also sent a few to an address in the area which I later picked up.

  

Cover with "SCOUTPOST" pictorial postmark sent to North Queensferry, Fife.

The best quality postmark I was able to get was this:


 The cover with it is now on sale on my eBay, with offers enabled,

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