Postcard scenery: Harris delivers as stunning route named in UK’ s top 10 for posties

Royal Mail has named the west side of Harris in the Outer Hebrides as one of the most picture-perfect postal routes in Scotland.

The area features among Britain’s 10 most picturesque delivery routes for posties.

The 85-mile route on Harris weaves among all the beachside communities of Seilebost, Luskentyre and Northton, as well as the Bays, and takes postie Donald Morrison about five hours to complete.

Mr Morrison, who has worked the route for 27 years, said: “All the roads have fantastic views, whether it is mountains, the beaches or the small villages.”

The Trossachs also features on the list.

The Royal Mail said: “(The) disarmingly beautiful Trossachs route in Perthshire spans three separate lochs – Loch Katrine, Loch Venachar and Loch Achray – and has even served as a film set for certain Outlander episodes. The round also straddles the geographical and cultural divide of the Highland Boundary Fault, with lowland Scotland to the south and east and the mountains and traditionally Gaelic culture to the north and west.”

Having scoured the length and breadth of its network of delivery offices, which span the farthest reaches of our fair isle, the company unveils its 10 most scenic postal routes.

They have been chosen because they run into a little or well-known beauty spot or house an unusual back story, or both.