My postman is soliciting gifts

[Anonymous]

It's Christmas. Didn't you know you have to tip everyone? You have to tip the cashier at the grocery store who rings you up. You have to tip the people at your leasing office when you drop off your rent check. If you own, you must send a tip to the lender with the check for your mortgage payment. When you go through a drive-thru, tip. When you pump gas, go in the station and give the cashier a tip. If you go to the dentist, slip the girl at the check-in counter and the dental technician a $20, and give the dentist himself the cost of a tooth cleaning on top of your bill, as a tip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My newspaper carrier gave us a card and envelope. The card included a pre-printed note that said he was sorry the newspaper was always late, but it was hard to get it there in time. It takes a lot of nerve to admit you've done a bad job and still ask for a tip!

No way! That is hilarious. And ballsy.

Give him a tip - like: "Next year try and be on time with the newspaper - thanks!" That's a tip isn't it?

This is EXACTLY what I would do!

[Anonymous]

Our newspaper person gave us a preprinted envelope, but I was glad he did because otherwise I'd have no idea where to send the tip. We get fantastic service. The paper is on our doorstep by 6 am pretty much every day. When it's raining, the paper is on the part of our doorstep that generally stays dry. I sent him $50.

When I was a kid, I had a paper route and had to go door to door every month to collect. Some people would tip $5 or more per month, not including $20 or more at the holidays, and that was in the early 80s. Now I pay online and only get asked for a tip once a year. I'm fine with that.

(But the mailman is likely violating federal law.)

[Anonymous]

How do you tip the garbage men? Not sure if I would or wouldn't, but I don't even see them--they come through our back alley, usually before we are up and dressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our newspaper person gave us a preprinted envelope, but I was glad he did because otherwise I'd have no idea where to send the tip. We get fantastic service. The paper is on our doorstep by 6 am pretty much every day. When it's raining, the paper is on the part of our doorstep that generally stays dry. I sent him $50.

When I was a kid, I had a paper route and had to go door to door every month to collect. Some people would tip $5 or more per month, not including $20 or more at the holidays, and that was in the early 80s. Now I pay online and only get asked for a tip once a year. I'm fine with that.

(But the mailman is likely violating federal law.)

I too appreciated the envelope from my paper carrier. I was happy to him a tip.

My husband was a paper boy too and he loved the Christmas tips that he got!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
When I was a kid, I had a paper route and had to go door to door every month to collect. Some people would tip $5 or more per month, not including $20 or more at the holidays, and that was in the early 80s. Now I pay online and only get asked for a tip once a year. I'm fine with that.(But the mailman is likely violating federal law.)

Me too! I gave MUCH better service than the guy who delivers my paper (papers on the front step or inside the door on rainy/windy days, always there by 5:30, including weekends), but I still appreciate what it means to be getting up at the crack of dawn in all kinds of weather every single day of the year.

[Anonymous]

How does one even go about tipping the mail man/woman? I have tried a couple times in other cities I lived in (Leaving an envelope addressed to "Mail carrier") and they never took it.

[Anonymous]

We've tipped our garbage men by having my husband run out to our driveway when we hear the truck coming and handing them each a $20. I admit to being annoyed by our Washington Post delivery lady with her letter on how early she gets up to deliver our papers and wishing us a great new year and leaving us her address.

[Anonymous]

Post men are paid really well and get great benefits. It's probably one of the few well paying government jobs you can without a college or even possibly a highschool degree.

We are good tippers with waiters and waitresses, we give as much as allowed to teachers if they are good and give generously to class gifts, I tip well the person who cuts my hair, we try to donate to the police when we can and to several charities etc. However, I do NOT think I need to tip our postperson. Well except for the year we got married I topped the UPS and USPS man for dealing with so many packages and I may have tipped during snomaggeden, otherwise NO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've tipped our garbage men by having my husband run out to our driveway when we hear the truck coming and handing them each a $20. I admit to being annoyed by our Washington Post delivery lady with her letter on how early she gets up to deliver our papers and wishing us a great new year and leaving us her address.

TACKY!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd not send him anything then after the holidays ask him if he liked what you sent him. When he replies he didn't get anything, tell him it must've got lost in the mail - and blame the post office.

[Anonymous]

Where have you people been? The postal service has not been federal for some time.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, posting again to say...if we can't afford to eat at a restaurant and tip, we don't go. If I can't afford a haircut with tip, I wait a few months. Those are extras. I am a taxpayer and I should get mail no matter what. Hairdressers and waiters rarely get benefits or other perks. They count on that money. Government workers should not have these expectations. How stupid too in this economy where it's easy to replace people.

[Anonymous]

Remove your address and forward it to the office of the postal inspector

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I am not into tipping everyone and their mother. I am happy to tip well when eating out or at the salon, but it irritates me that everyone wants a tip (or to tip) for everything.

Agree 100%

I can barely afford the basic Christmas this year. I certainly can't afford to shell out an additional few hundred bucks to tip people who in my opinion, make plenty of money. No one gives my DH (a cop) tips.