Holiday tips for mail delivery and trash pickup
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Anonymous
| Do you do this? If so, how much? |
Anonymous
| Our trash guys are city employees, I tried taping an envelope to the can lid one year and they just left it there. So I gave up on that. I think it’s different if you contract with a private company. |
Anonymous
| Yeah I don’t tip gov’t employees. |
Anonymous
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Mail carrier, yes - I put the envelope with a card + money in it addressed to "Mail Carrier" where we put outgoing mail.
Trash guys, no. Ours are terrible anyway. |
Anonymous
| No to both. Ours rotate. We have one mail carrier who is there more often than the others but she's not the only one. And she throws my packages. |
Anonymous
| Trash and mail- $20 each. Trash folks have a tough job in miserable conditions. I try to meet them outside the morning of our pickup. |
Anonymous
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Mail $20
Trash $40 |
Anonymous
| $20 for each person. Mail, trash, milk delivery, coaches, teachers. |
Anonymous
| Trash no. When I ran my business out of my home my dh and I personally got to know the mail carrier that picked up our package over the 4 years he had our route. We would stop and talk if we seen him out and about and even got his son a toy one year. So for that we tipped him upwards of $300. |
Anonymous
| Yes, $20 per person. |
Anonymous
| As kind as a gesture as it is, USPS employees cannot accept cash gifts - https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22349/html/cover_025.htm |
Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
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We alway tip the trash guys (like $100/ year) and as a result they always put our bins back in their area of our house and never give us grief if we dispose of oversize items.
We used to tip our mail carrier like $50, but he was re-assigned and now we seem to have a new one every 3 months. |
Anonymous
| No. I don't do that. They have better pay and benefits than I do. |
Anonymous
Really, because ours specifically dropped off a tip envelope, basically requesting cash. |