Do You you politely thank the Postman for delivering your mail and the bus driver?

TurkishDelight

Always.
And wait staff to add to your list.
It's probably mostly too quiet to hear though, I'm very shy

Usually get one back if you add in a smile as well up here, but down south where my grandma lives.... well they're miserable beggars.

Vedder2008

I am actually surprised that this thread has been started, I thought it was normal to thank anyone who you thought was doing you a service, perhaps it was how I was brought up and how I have brought my children up.
Our bus service drivers are terrible for trying to make you loose your balance when they hit the speed bumps but I still say thanks to them when I get off, if I didn't I would feel I had forgotten something.

SpammyTheSpammer

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...1816683&page=2

I always do this and my mother did as well. I also thank people who come to do things for me, even if I am paying them but not, obv, if they do a rotten job.

missbishi

What a great thread! Good manners mean so much and are absolutely free. I say thank you to everyone too but I think I took it a bit far the other day when I said "thank you" to the cashpoint!!

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Ivory_Tinkler wrote: »

Good manners cost nothing and if someone does something for me then I will say thank-you. Nothing irritates me more than standing back and holding open a door while shopping to have someone sail past you without so much as a smile, let alone a thank-you. The Next sale on Saturday was a perfect example of rude and igorant people who couldn't even utter the T word when I'd stood back to let them pass, buggies and all. I'm sure the world would be a much better place with more smiles and more manners!

Have to agree with you here,manners are becoming a thing of the past.
I've always been very polite and pleased to say my grown up children have followed and are the same.
However I find something as simple as saying excuse me when trying to pass someone much better than rushing past and nearly knocking someone over yet when you say this nowadays you get looked at as if you have two heads.
I just find people in general to be miserable and bad mannered.
A smile costs nothing and without good manners we will never have respect for each other.

Kandipandi

Markie11 wrote: »

Sorry but I would like to add two very debatable topics to this thread:

- Different levels of manners and courtesy across the country
- Changes in driving courtesy (linked to above in my opinion)

I moved south from Newcastle 8 years ago and immediately I realised the difference in manners. There is not a huge difference on 'please', 'thank you' and so on, but a big difference on holding doors, letting people pass before you, etc. I remember going back home one weekend and when I filled the car up, I went in to pay and on leaving the assistant said 'Have a good day'. I felt shocked to hear it, not because it was unusual, but because I hadn't heard it for a while, never since I had moved. People have said that the more North you go the better the manners. Who agrees with this and why? Is it a cultural thing? Who disagrees with this?

Also driving, it seems to be getting a worse. For example when driving on the motorway and you flash someone out, you used to always get an acknowledgement and thanks with a flash or a simple hand up. I very rairly see this now and it really annoys me. Previous posts have stated that it promotes happiness and good will, I totally agree with this.

Better manners in general generates a happier life.

Totally agree with this - there are ignorant people everywhere but I do find things very different in different parts of the country.
I live in the North East and find that manners are generally good.

phead

I've thanked the cash machine and the automated till in tesco's recently.

Is this good manners, or am I just going bonkers :rotfl:

Casperthefriendlyghost

I don't thank either of them, the postman for leaving my parcels outside to get soaked in the rain, delivering my mail to my neighbours and all the flats' post comes through my door so I have to redistribute it.

Now I repost it in the mailbox down the street on my way to work so it has to be sorted and re delivered. I even get mail for the street next to mine delivered through my door.

And as for bus drivers, they're the rudest most obnoxious people I have ever met, 12 years in London and I've yet to meet one who doesn't grunt at you or nearly run you over instead of stopping at a bus stop, even when empty!

So until I meet a decent one I probably won't bother!

Cheers
Casper
x x

Rosemary7391

I thank anyone who does something for me, its a reflex! I'd have got a good telling off if I hadn't when I was younger, so it was well engrained. I work in a supermarket and most people are fairly polite too it seems; the worst is offering to help and being totally ignored (or maybe I'm too quiet?). Most people says thanks at least when I've helped them.