Christmas Post - 1st Kesgrave Scout Group

The Scouts Christmas card collection and delivery service is running again this year.

The cost per card will be 40p and the closing date is 9 December.

All profits are shared between the scout groups, taking part in the ratio of the number of cards collected and delivered. Further information at: www.scoutspostipswich.org.uk.

Since 1995 the 1st Kesgrave Scout Group have been delivering Christmas Cards in the Kesgrave area. In 2000 we joined the Ipswich wide service and now deliver around 12% of the cards collected, which in 2025 was around 7,540 of the 63,113 in total.

We also use a cancellation on all cards collected or delivered in Kesgrave and have created a stamp for cards delivered in Kesgrave. Theoretically only one stamp per house delivered to is used but in practice the scouts often forget this and put stamps on randomly! Details of these cancellations, stamps and how many we delivered can be found below.

For those interested in Scout and Guide Charity Christmas Posts in Great Britain there is a web site devoted to it, created by John Crabbe. It can be found here.

The official Ipswich Scout Post website can be found at: www.scoutspostipswich.org.uk.

Xmas card deliveries in Kesgrave

Below are the stamps used from 1997 onwards and the cancellations used from 1995 onwards. The cancellations are shown at the end. The purple cancellation was used from 1995-1999 and the blue one from 2000 onwards.