Holiday tips for mail delivery and trash pickup

[Anonymous]

I thought we weren’t allowed to tip the mail carrier?

[Anonymous]

this is really stupid because the people who do your mail and trash change like every few weeks so you will not get the same person.

[Anonymous]

I thought the mail carrier can’t accept tips. We give candy. I know he probably gets a ton but we just want to express our appreciation. The current guy enjoys chatting with DH and our previous ones were so kind.

We don’t tip the trash. We tried long ago to leave it taped to the underside of the lid for Waste Management employees but they didn’t take it. Now we have county employees and I’m not sure if we can tip but it hasn’t occurred to me to try as we don’t have great service.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not. As noted above, mailmen are not allowed to accept cash tips. My garbageman has a goverment job with a pension and doesn't do anything for me that goes above and beyond the minimum job requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

Really, because ours specifically dropped off a tip envelope, basically requesting cash.

are you sure this wasnt your newspaper delivery person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

Really, because ours specifically dropped off a tip envelope, basically requesting cash.

+1 every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. As noted above, mailmen are not allowed to accept cash tips. My garbageman has a goverment job with a pension and doesn't do anything for me that goes above and beyond the minimum job requirements.

They may not be allowed, but I leave a card with cash every year for our mail delivery person and I always receive a handwritten thank you card from him.

DH ran out in the dark last Friday to tip the garbage man. He told DH "You're the only one with a heart in this neighborhood." Made me feel bad we hadn't given him more.

[Anonymous]

I tipped mail carrier $20 in a card.

I tried to tip trash and recycling $20 each, taped to bins. Trash got theirs, saw it from window.
Then a while later, noticed recycling envelope was gone. Don't know who took it. A neighbor? Yuck.
Put out another card and $20 for recycling. Just got out of shower, looked out window, saw them tip can in truck not paying attention to envelope and it went in truck. Apparently they are not on lookout for tips


Yes I should have sat around waiting to hand it to them, but really they come at all hours. Bates.

I think next year I will skip it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$20 for each person. Mail, trash, milk delivery, coaches, teachers.

"Milk delivery" - we were just transported to the 1950s.

[Anonymous]

We trip our mail person $100, and each trash person (3 total) $50 each.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. As noted above, mailmen are not allowed to accept cash tips. My garbageman has a goverment job with a pension and doesn't do anything for me that goes above and beyond the minimum job requirements.

Our mailman specifically gave us a card that insinuated to us he wanted a tip, and he accepted said tip when we gave it to him.

[Anonymous]

We have three different trash pickups (regular, compostable, recyclable) and trash scavengers so it would be difficult to tip anyone unless we happened to be right there at pickup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. As noted above, mailmen are not allowed to accept cash tips. My garbageman has a goverment job with a pension and doesn't do anything for me that goes above and beyond the minimum job requirements.

Our mailman specifically gave us a card that insinuated to us he wanted a tip, and he accepted said tip when we gave it to him.

Never heard of this. I've had two consecutive carriers refuse gifts, though, so I stopped giving them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We trip our mail person $100, and each trash person (3 total) $50 each.

That's not allowed by USPS. You can give a gift worth $20 or less but not cash or cash equivalents like gift cards. If you gift more than once, the max per customer is $50 per year.

https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22349/html/cover_025.htm#:~:text=All%20postal%20employees%2C%20including%20carriers,any%20one%20calendar%20year%20period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. As noted above, mailmen are not allowed to accept cash tips. My garbageman has a goverment job with a pension and doesn't do anything for me that goes above and beyond the minimum job requirements.

Our mailman specifically gave us a card that insinuated to us he wanted a tip, and he accepted said tip when we gave it to him.

Report him anonymously.