Tip delivery person

GirlRacer_2

LOL silvercar. My postman knows where my mum lives so drops any parcels off with her. He's a little darling.

Poppycat

I no someone who is a takeaway delivery driver, and they get a basic wage. They have to run there own car, pay petrol etc and its the tips that just about pay petrol, they get about £4-£5 a night for 4-5 hours work and clock up about 50 miles

derrick

Poppycat wrote:

I no someone who is a takeaway delivery driver, and they get a basic wage. They have to run there own car, pay petrol etc and its the tips that just about pay petrol, they get about £4-£5 a night for 4-5 hours work and clock up about 50 miles

Doesn't minimum wage,(£5.35 per hour), come into this?

nibs

I never tip delivery drivers as their special offers normally apply on collection only, which means you are paying extra on delivery orders anyway. I give a 10% tip for hairdressers but only because I think that you're supposed to.

Poppycat

She told me she used to get £5.50 an hour but she told them a couple of weeks back that it isnt worth doing anymore so they now give her £6.00 an hour. The tips make the difference although they dont cover the full costs, even petrol.

derrick wrote:

Doesn't minimum wage,(£5.35 per hour), come into this?

Norma_Desmond

I do tip our pizza delivery chap because the food always arrives piping hot (we're miles from nowhere!) and he's a cheerful sort.
And I always give our postie a bottle of something at Christmas, because again he goes out of his way to be pleasant and helpful.

derrick

Poppycat wrote:

She told me she used to get £5.50 an hour but she told them a couple of weeks back that it isnt worth doing anymore so they now give her £6.00 an hour. The tips make the difference although they dont cover the full costs, even petrol.

So do I assume your post #13, refered to her tips ? because I assumed it was her pay for 4-5 hours, making pay approx £1. per hour, at £6 per hour she is above minimum wage, I would have thought that using her own car there should be some sort of usage allowance, to cover petrol and wear and tear, if not maybe better looking for a new job

LittleVoice

Poppycat wrote:

She told me she used to get £5.50 an hour but she told them a couple of weeks back that it isnt worth doing anymore so they now give her £6.00 an hour. The tips make the difference although they dont cover the full costs, even petrol.

If the employer doesn't make a mileage payment for delivery then she could claim for tax relief.

Clive_Woody

Interesting attitudes here. In this country we tip very rarely, but often we tip for bad service because we feel it the done thing (restaurants, waiters). The assumption is these people are paid a salary therefore why should we reward them further.

In the US, service is often insincere, and the "have a nice day" message is a bit tired, but generally on my trips to the States customer service has been very good. In the states a lot of service industry jobs receive very poor salaries, but because of the tip culture if they do their job well they can make a good living. In bars in the US folk tend to tip the barman, nothing huge, but for fast attentive service he is rewarded (TIP: when ordering spirits in the US, tip well, and when you go back you will be rewarded with a generous measure, none of these silly plastic measuring devices over there giving out 25cl).

At the end of the day the good service is only there because they get rewarded for it (well maybe some of them are nice people too), but I would rather this than the sullen, shockingly bad service we have come to accept as the norm over here.

Astaroth

derrick wrote:

Doesn't minimum wage,(£5.35 per hour), come into this?

Most would say minimum wage isnt enough, especially if you take off car costs etc.

Some "get round" minimum wage by not employing delivery people but having self employed people do deliveries... the company offers up a contract of £x per successful delivery and it is up to delivery companies/ individuals to decide if they want to sign up to the contract or not. With a former employer we used to pay 20p per successful delivery and 50p per successful collection - they got nothing for an unsuccessful attempt (so turn up to collect and the customer is out they didnt get anything). Obviously if you had a lot of customers in a tight cluster and were going that way anyway (many of our delivery people were mums etc doing it on their way back from the school run etc) then it they could do a reasonable rate... some however would have a remote customer who it took 30 minutes to get to so could spend 5 hours trying to collect a parcel and not receive a pennies pay (they had to make 5 attempts before they could abandon it)

As to the OP... I only "properly" tip when I feel that someone has gone beyond the service I expect though I will round to the nearest pound fairly often. A while back the misses had a broken arm and I was away on business and the Waitrose delivery person carried all the shopping into the kitchen and offered to unpack it all for her so he got a tip.