Post & Go and Self-Service Kiosk News for 2026

This post and its comments will hold all news on Post and Go stamps, machines, and PO Self Service Kiosks (SSKs).   

For details of new Post and Go stamps issued by the postal authorities in Guernsey and Jersey I recommend WhiteKnight's Commonwealth Stamp Opinion. All issues from the islands, and Gibraltar and the SOAR stamps from Isle of Man and Ireland will normally be pictured there as announced.

Any late news for PO SSKs will continue to be added on the 2025 blog post. Please continue to make comments there until it is closed for comments or send me news/images by email.

Crown Office Franchising

In June in 2025 Post Office Ltd announced that the remaining Crown Offices would be franchised before the end of the year.  Locally this only meant a change of operator and personnel as Dereham has never had a Self-Service Kiosk, but around the country there were many mixed messages - and outcomes - as to whether existing machines would continue to be used by the new operator, which often operated out of different premises.  

Our correspondents have kept us updated with all that news and other news of just where SSKs are still on-site, which of these (if any) are working, and what they are dispensing.

There has been a gradual move to card-only, or shut-down, especially where staffing does not permit the previous 'floor-walker' assistance.  In these cases it's difficult to know if the machines were serviceable or not.  

There is no major news yet, but I know Malcolm and Trevor (and others) will be keen to add details from their travels in this new year, so I'll start with just this image as typical of what they will find!  Any specific, especially illustrated, news will be added just as soon as we get it.

8 January 

From Trevor's report in the comments

Shrewsbury 7th Jan SSK68 Machin R21YAL & CL19S (missing print in middle of stamp on 2nd Class)

Chester 7th Jan SSK67 Machin R20YAL (2nd on 1st stock) 

10 January Another picture from Trevor showing perfectly centred printing on the 2nd class kiosk 68 at Exmouth.

UPDATE 13 February - Trevor's photos from Edinburgh (see comments).

Edinburgh Self-service kiosks - RIP!

Edinburgh's 'collectibles' - which appear to include the new 1st class Large business sheet (row 2)

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UPDATE 13 July Morrisons move means 52 Post Office branches closing this summer

See full article here - if any of these contain SSKs, active or not, please let me know and I'll add them here.

UPDATE 24 August.  Here is Malcolm's photo from Leeds Market branch, probably of K67 now that the others have been removed. (see comments)

Leeds Market branch PO reduced to one SSK.

Over to you, readers! 

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I have compiled an alphabetical list by location of the comments on closures, and those kiosks still working.  This does not repeat the contents of the machines at any given time.  The table is based on reports in 2026 and will be updated with new content as reports are made, but probably not immediately: I'll do batches as I remember (or am asked!).

There may be errors of transcription from the blog comments to this table - those are mine, hopefully not many. 

Progress to removal of all NCR Self-Service Kiosks

Location	Report date	Comment - Kiosk Numbers shown. OOS=Out of Service	Rep-orter
Aylesbury	15 July	To close 18 August	M
Barnstaple	2 March	Both OOS	T
Basildon		To close 21 September	M
Bath	18 April	67 active 68-71 OOS	T
	24 July	To close 1 September	M
Birmingham Pinfold Street	7 January	all OOS	T
	20 January	Branch closed	T
Bognor Regis	13 June	67 OOS 68 active	T
Bristol Galleries	25 March	71 active 67-70, 72-3 OOS	T
	14 September	All removed prob late August	T
Bury St Edmunds		To close 30 September	M
Cambridge City	20 January	67-69 active 70/1 OOS	JG
	16 June	All 5 OOS, three different printed messages	JG
	6 August	All removed 2 weeks ago	JG
Cardiff	25 March	67,69 OOS, 68,70,71 active	T
Chester	7 January	active	T
Chesterfield	30 July	removed a few weeks ago	PW/I
Chichester	13 June	67 OOS, 68,69 OOS fault notice	T
Coventry	17 June	All OOS	M
Darlington	24 August	Removed in last 3 weeks	M
Durham	24 August	67-69 all active	M
	29 August	Withdrawn 26 August	M
Eastleigh	13 June	67,68 OOS fault notice	T
Edinburgh	13 February	All switched off	T
Emsworth	13 June	67 active	T
Exeter	24 April	All OOS, 69 switched off	T
	16 May	All OOS	T
	14 September	All removed prob late August	T
Exmouth	9 January	67 OOS 68 active	T
		To close 28 September	M
Fareham	13 June	67-69 active	T
Gt Portland St	10 February	69,73 active other 5 OOS	JG
	2 March	70, 73 active others OOS	M
	20 April	69, 70 active others OOS	M
Glasgow Penny Black Gt Western Road	4 August	Turned off	M
Halifax	22 January	67,68 OOS 69 active	M
	21 August	All removed	M
Harbourne	17 June	67, 68 active	M
Hayes	29 July	To close 12 September	M
Hereford	17 June	All OOS	M
Huddersfield	21 January	2 active 2 OOS	M
	11 August	To be removed soon	M
	25 August	Now removed	M
Kennington Park	2 March	67 active, 68 OOS	M
Kensingtom High St	10 February	All removed for closure on 14th	JG
Leeds Market	21 August	Last one should have gone but van was full!	M
Leicester	12 September	To close 23 Sept not 3 Oct	M
Middlesborough	1 June	All OOS	M
	10 September	All removed since 31 August	M
	9 July	Both OOS	M
	24 August	Both on but OOS	M
Milton Keynes	10 June	Last day of use before relocation	M
Newcastle	1 June/9 July	All OOS / no future use	M
	8 September	Last one should have gone but van was full!	M
Norwich	17 June	4 machines status n/k	IB
	4 August	All 4 removed	M
Orpington	28 August	To close 28 October	M
Paignton	9 January	67,69 active 68 removed	T
	15 July	67,69 switched off	RW
Plymouth	9 January	67,69 68 OOS	T
Pontefract	22 January	67 active 68 OOS	T
Poplar	27 April	67,68 OOS	M
Reading	23 April	67,68,70 active, 69 OOS	M
	13 June	All OOS for some time	T
Rotherham	22 January	67 active 68 OOS off	T
St Fagans Rd	29 January	OOS since 8/25	M
St Helens	21 January	67,68 active	M
	8 September	Removed Aug 2026	M
Sevenoaks	14 May	All OOS	M
	8 September	Removed Aug 2026	M
Sheffield Charles St	30 July	2 m/c removed at least 6 months ago	PW/I
Shrewsbury	7 January	active	T
Solihull	16 June	All: OOS labels removed but can't be turned off as sockets inaccessible	M
Southampton		To close 22 September	M
Southend	15 July	To close 23 September	M
South Shields	8 September	Removed Aug 2026	M
Strand	10 February	67,68 active 2 more active but payment not taken	JG
	20 April	67-69 active 70 OOS	M
Sunderland	8 September	Removed Aug 2026	M
Swindon	2 February	67-69 active	T
	17 April	67-69 active	T
	24 July	To close 14 September	M
	11 August	All switched off	T
Sydenham	10 February	67 OOS 68 active	M
	25 April	67,68 active	M
Trowbridge	21 April	67 OOS, 68,69 active	M
	17 September	All kiosks removed last week of August	T
Truro		To close 6 October	T
Uxbridge	30 April	All OOS	M
Walsall	20 January	67,68 active	T
Wakefield	21/22 January	67,68 active	M / T
Warrington	21 January	2 active 2 OOS	M
Watford	8 September	To close 27 Jan 2027	M
Winchester	13 June	67,69 active 67 OOS	T
Windsor	9 June	All OOS	M
Wokingham	15 April	Both OOS	M
	8 September	Removed Aug 2026	M
Worcester	15 June	All off permanently	M
Wrexham	7 January	active	T
	29 July	To close 12 September	M
Yeovil	17 September	All Kiosks removed first week of September	T
York	8 September	To close 14 October	M

If you wish to check the comments, then the date in the Report date column is usually the date the blog comment is made but occasionally comments are made days or even weeks after the sighting, and that is reflected if mentioned in the comment.  

I hope this is useful, if only to show the sorry state of SSKs in modern post office branches.   As I showed on my report from Ireland, although not many people seem to buy the stamps from the An Post machines, they are used by people dropping off parcels.  

 

 

 

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