[Politics] Do You Give Your Postie a Christmas Tip?

[Palacefinder General]

Seeing as we’re all done with football, it’s time to move onto more important things - if you do tip your postman/woman, how much do you usually give? (advance apologies for intrusive question)

 

[Thunder Bolt]

No, it’s a different one every week.

 

[bluenitsuj]

No as he is Palace.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Yes. Lovely old chap our postie. Always a smile and a hello.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Ye a book of first class stamps....which will be quite valuable

 

[swindonseagull]

No

No one gives me a tip at work.

 

[BNthree]

Not automatically, depends how he's been throughout the year, though usually we bung them a fiver. Milkman gets a tenner as he does a sterling job all year round.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

I will this year as we have an understanding now. That is not to ring then run rather than wait a few seconds and make me go into the post office because he wants to rush his round.
The milkman will definitely get one as it is a more challenging job and he has even given us a Christmas card.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Yes. Lovely old chap our postie. Always a smile and a hello.

But is he smiling at you or your Mrs, Boldy?
Keep an eye on those posties.

 

[Taybha]

Of course

 

[Deleted member 2719]

I knew a postie who main skill was delivering french letters to his customers.

 

[timbha]

Yes, £5 or £10 depending what’s handy and whether we’re feeling generous. He worked all thru lockdown and brought a sense of normality to these strange times. We gave him a voucher during the first lockdown as a little thank you

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Yes, something I was brought up to do although I no longer tip the dustmen (I think they are called refuse collectors these days) as it’s not the same job as it used to be when they physically carried large bins of waste fro the back of the house to the front and emptied it manually into the cart. All a bit easier today.
The postie is someone you get to chat to and engage with - they can be very helpful people.

 

[PaoloAlbioni]

Of course - he’s friendly, helpful, works hard in all weathers and as far as we’re concerned is one of the key worker stars of 2020.

 

[The Oldman]

Yes. Very helpful and cheerful guy. Think Posties have done well in the pandemic.

 

[jakarta]

Would do if it was the same one but since our regular one retired they seem to rotate a number of posties on our round.

I will tip the Bin Men, they have never stopped working through both Lockdowns...

 

[Frankie]

I would imagine their workload has tripled since the pandemic with everyone ordering stuff they don't really need online .

Add now the Christmas rush and it must be a hard job , I've no idea how they find all the addresses here in Wales as there's generally no numbers just house names, which must be tricky for new Posties to figure out .

So yes my regular postie gets a very good tip .

 

[N17]

Yep.

Always tip delivery drivers as well.

Used to tip the bin men but haven't done that for quite a few years now.

 

[Goldstone1976]

I moved home in August. I used to tip my old postie £20 at Xmas, but won't tip my new one as he's a moany git. Conversely, I didn't used to tip the bin men at the old place as they were a miserable bunch, but the new lot are excellent and will get a tip.

 

[Insel affe]

No as I think he helps himself anyway.