Holiday tips for mail delivery and trash pickup

[Anonymous]

I tip all of them $20/person. It’s totally worth it. They pick up things of mine they’re not supposed to, will mail my packages without me scheduling, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don't GAF. These people are very hard workers.

[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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Where do you live?

We are in Arlington and have had the same mail carrier for 10+ years.

Our trash folks are pretty consistent too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I gave mine $20.

[Anonymous]

I gift my mail carrier (who is amazing) a $20 gift card to a place that they'd likely run into on their route - think 7-11, McDonalds, Starbucks, etc. Maybe Amazon if I put things off too long.

The rules say they can only take $20 and in non-cash or non-cash equivalent form (Visa gift cards aren't allowed). I'd give (much) more if it were allowed but I don't want to put the carrier in a bad spot by breaking the rules (and they are the type who I actually think follows the rules).

I don't do anything for the trash people; I have no personal relationship with them, I don't know if they're the same people week-to-week, and our trash collection has been pretty haphazard this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I don't do that. They have better pay and benefits than I do.

This.

[Anonymous]

I tip the trash collectors. Not the mail deliverer anymore since the person assigned changes a lot.

[Anonymous]

We hand $20 to each trash and recycling guy. Nothing for mail carrier but we should.