What about the mailman and the garbage guys?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don't give either anything. If every household left $10 in the mailbox as a gift, the carrier would go home with way over $2000 for the day!

No need to worry about the mailman getting rich, I can assure you that most people share your pleasant attitude.

When you start to assume things, you make and ass out of U and Me! I'd LOVE to give money out to all those who provide services and those who really need the money. I'd love to go around and "tip" everyone - the receptionist at my doctor's office, the receptionist at my kid's pediatrician office, the homeless folks we passed food out to on Thanksgiving. I would have loved to send out more gift packages for Operation Christmas Child. Fact is, our money doesn't stretch that far... and those making a decent salary (and mail carriers do!) aren't at the top of my list. Sorry my comment bothered you so much. Happy Holidays!

[Anonymous]

I won't give anything to the mail carrier. We have a different one every day, and most of them are talking loudly on their cell phones, often with some pretty nasty language, the whole route. We get constant mixups, and lots of stuff just never arrives at all. The mail carriers deserve squat.

The trash guys, on the other hand... I have to think about the best way to get something to them. They are pleasant and helpful pretty much all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don't give either anything. If every household left $10 in the mailbox as a gift, the carrier would go home with way over $2000 for the day!

No need to worry about the mailman getting rich, I can assure you that most people share your pleasant attitude.

When you start to assume things, you make and ass out of U and Me! I'd LOVE to give money out to all those who provide services and those who really need the money. I'd love to go around and "tip" everyone - the receptionist at my doctor's office, the receptionist at my kid's pediatrician office, the homeless folks we passed food out to on Thanksgiving. I would have loved to send out more gift packages for Operation Christmas Child. Fact is, our money doesn't stretch that far... and those making a decent salary (and mail carriers do!) aren't at the top of my list. Sorry my comment bothered you so much. Happy Holidays!

Trust me, I'm not the person in this exchange who is "bothered."

[Anonymous]

Dear Lord do not start this nonsense in D.C.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't give either anything. If every household left $10 in the mailbox as a gift, the carrier would go home with way over $2000 for the day!

Exactly! God forbid these people get a little extra cash around the holidays. They should just be happy they get to come to our house and haul away our garbage/deliver our Garnet Hill catalogs in every kind of Godforsaken weather.

[Anonymous]

I give the mailperson a giftcard for about $15-$20 each year...usually to Starbucks, Panera, etc.

I only got the trash people a gift one year, I think it was a $10 gc to Starbucks each (I think we have about 5, between drivers, the actual people hopping off the truck and retreiving the cans, and the recycle truck)..I didn't feel comfortable taping a card to the lid, and it's sometimes hard to catch them at the exact time they are going around collecting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don't give either anything. If every household left $10 in the mailbox as a gift, the carrier would go home with way over $2000 for the day!

Exactly! God forbid these people get a little extra cash around the holidays. They should just be happy they get to come to our house and haul away our garbage/deliver our Garnet Hill catalogs in every kind of Godforsaken weather.

Tipping is a practice that subsidizes wages that employers don't provide. Postal work and refuse removal are decent-paying professions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don't give either anything. If every household left $10 in the mailbox as a gift, the carrier would go home with way over $2000 for the day!

Exactly! God forbid these people get a little extra cash around the holidays. They should just be happy they get to come to our house and haul away our garbage/deliver our Garnet Hill catalogs in every kind of Godforsaken weather.

Tipping is a practice that subsidizes wages that employers don't provide. Postal work and refuse removal are decent-paying professions.

Tipping is a practice that shows your appreciation for people who do the jobs you're glad not to have to do.

[Anonymous]

$20 for the mailman in a card. Same for trashmen (doubled).

Seriously--in this day and age most ppl don't want to risk eating somebody they don't know well's homemade cookies. Plus-- do they really want to cart around gifts when they are already carrying heavy mailbag? Give him a break and leave cash or gift card.