Postal service

The postal service on Jura has gone through several stages and only recently has it been modernised.

The first post office was established in 1812 at Lagg. This post office was linked with the mainland and served for both Jura and Islay (where runners delivered the mail). Horses were sometimes used to reach the farthest places from Legg.

In 1868, Islay became the main post office for the two islands, and runners were deployed to deliver the mail on Jura.

A few years later, the mail started to be delivered from the mainland to Craighouse thanks to a new agreement aimed at making things running more efficiently. However, the mail used to be delivered only three times at week (with the days changing over time), and this arrangement lasted for very long. To be noted that the post office in Lagg was closed in 1963 after 151 years of intermittent service!

Only in 1990 a daily mail service coming from Islay and using road transport for the distribution on the island was introduced.