My pledge to give Xmas pressies to my postie, dustbin men, milkman & newspaper kiddo

FATBALLZ

cyberbob wrote: »

I'm always confused about this why are Dustbinmen and Postman more worthy of a Christmas gift than Shopworkers you meet weekly. Trafficwardens, Your GP, the streetcleaner, Council office workers, Those Telesales people, or even Martin Lewis, in fact anyone else you meet daily/weekly who is doing a good job that they get paid for.

Why are Dustmen and Postmen more worthy than others?

GPs get loads of stuff off patients. I do find this bizarre as well, maybe it goes back to the days when postmen and binmen delivered a good an personalised service and people were appreciative of it. In the modern times of leaving 2 week old rubbish where it is if you've slightly overfilled the bin and getting red bits of card instead of parcels I'm not sure why people still do it.

Coopdivi

solodanceparty wrote: »

Considering they get paid pretty well for their jobs, no I don't leave them anything. Plus, what they do is in their job description.

Bah humbug!

hoyles10

We used to give the paper man a tenner at Christmas but we have moved now so don't have any papers delivered.

I suppose I could give our local traffic warden something at Christmas but it would lead to me getting locked up

gordikin

My postman regularly delivers other peoples mail to my house. We also often need a street sweeper to follow after the dustbinmen have done their rounds...they should be tipping me for doing their job!

DCFC79

We dont give anything and dont get given gifts so we are extra super money saving experts

Kaleidoscope27

My mum tends to give the paper lads/girls a bit of money at Christmas. And the milkman and I think the window cleaner. But not the postman or binmen. My parents run a PO and they get presents from their regular customers at Christmas. We get inundated with tins of biscuits!

Lokolo

My postman is muslim so xmas pressies are a no no. We give a card and chocs on Eid though.

luxor4t

freightexec2009 wrote: »

..... My Newspapers are always delivered on time, and dry majority of the time. snipped

If the papers are wet, the deliverer is also wet . My 3 kids all had paper rounds & regularly got soaked to the skin, despite me buying them waterproofs. Seemed to keep them healthy though, & they're all good walkers still.Their wages were never anywhere near what the newsagent charged for delivery, so even £1 tip (2p a week) was very welcome.

Lovely to hear your pledge - we give the postman biscuits but don't have a paper delivered (leave too early for work!). Shall do something for the dustmen this year!

shellsuit

When binmen used to do a proper grafting job, we would give them a tip at Christmas. They don't have much of a job to do now, so we don't tip.

When we had a regular postman, we used to give him a tip. We have every Tom, !!!!!! and Harry delivering the mail now, so I won't bother.

When my kids were in infant and junior school, I used to give a gift (usually tin of chocs or biscuits) to the lollipop men.

slopemaster

I wish they would just empty my bin, it gets done about every 6 weeks in spite of many calls to council - now sort of given up, but definitely NO tips!