What do you tip your bin men?

Two teams £15 each team..... never get bins left behind my car...

Why would I tip them? I dont tip anyone. They're doing a job that they're paid for

This goes back to when binmen would come on to your property, pick up the bins and carry them out to empty them. Used to be a much harder job before they started making people take their own bins out and sorting all the recycling themselves etc.

@FrillyGoatFluff so how much do you tip the Amazon person?

My husband takes the piss every year that I tip the postman and the bin men at christmas.

I do a tenner for each.

We have a HUGE amount of Amazon deliveries (husband's addiction, it's ridiculous) so I always feel guilty that they have to deal with the incoming and outgoing mountain of crap on the daily.

He says it's my most middle class trait 😂 which is going some, frankly

I'm not upset. Don't make this personal.
I'm trying to work out why some people get tips and others don't.
A hierarchy of tipping, if you will.

A case of beer left on each colour of bin.

I was just about to ask the same thing...

Nothing. They continually leave the bins in the road meaning someone has to move them all.

My parents tip everyone. They tip the binmen, postman, the doctors, the pharmacy, the garage, the vet, the hairdresser and beautician at Christmas.

Well they are mainly men, I’m the only woman in the depot. Unisex terms are loaders and drivers. I know in my small depot each crew works as a 3. There are four full time crews. One person from each crew is holding onto envelopes to be divvied at Christmas. Beer/ bottles / chocs / biscuits are taken home by whichever crew member wants them. I’m pretty sure you could fit a lot of beer in a cab tbh but part of my job would be as an assist so if there were issues so Id probably end up with lots of beer in the back. Never happened as far as I know normally I get called to collect a loader off the beat as was feeling ill or had injured themselves type stuff. Or a lorry has broken and loaders need collecting whilst driver waits for commercial recovery (takes about 4 hours to arrive).

Right, thanks

I don’t think it would work in practice in the UK generally. It’d really only work in areas where bin collection area is relatively flat, free of obstruction and there are no parked cars along the curb. I saw a video with an ai version. Driverless truck. I could see it working in new build housing estates. Normal roads with cars everywhere, not a chance.

I've literally never come across the idea of tipping the bin men*. Is this a rural thing, where a special trip is needed to get to your house? Here we're one of hundreds of houses on the street. They have to do the neighbours' bins anyway, and our waste is right there on the pavement. They have to walk right past it.

The idea of tipping them something like a gift card or a tenner makes no sense at all. There might be a crew of three to five people doing the general waste, then another crew doing the recycling and yet another collecting food waste. How will a gift card be divided between 9-15 people who may be working differently timed shifts on different vehicles? A case of beer or similar is easier to share out but no less impractical. How could similar gifts from potentially hundreds of properties be carried in a cab which needs to transport the crew back to the depot?

• This seems a bit sexist for MN. Pretty sure there's a woman who sometimes drives the truck round here. Bin emptiers? Waste collectors?

I suspect it’s bin, one regular, one recycling.

I’m in. Scotland and following the strikes of last / this year the loaders all got 10% pay rises taking them up to just over £12 ph. With the announcement of min wage increase they got an extra £1 an hour effective immediately. I work for the LA and have had the same increase.

I do wonder if a bit like the teachers strikes starting off in Scotland whether there will be strikes in England by refuse collectors etc this summer. Piles of hot, smelly waste, wafting away in the sunshine in front of tourists. I know things were pretty brutal in Edinburgh over the festival, imagine how much waste London produces.

What's a Black in/Green in?

😲I hope they don’t get into trouble over the box of Victoria Selection I tied onto my bin!!

Usually chocolates

I have never heard of tipping the bin men or postie before...

I don't. I already do 2/3 of their work by taking my own bins in and out.
They don't tip me for that do they.

Postman £10
Black in £10
Green in £10

I've had the same postman for several years and he is reliable.

Nothing, because they are useless!

zero i don't see them
they come around at 7am ish and as im never up i just go out when i do wake(hours later)and take in said empty bin, mostly its 3-4 houses up

also i don't know if it was a new guy or their bosses moaning at them but in the summer for 3 weeks solid 99% of the street was having one of those stickers saying they cant empty it because of wrong items put in even if you did not have wrong items.it was heatwave month as well

on the village Facebook group thing the whole village was having it
so bin man would come to the village and go away with a very empty cart
loads moaned at the council and it just went back to normal

my neighbour had it on ring camera of one diving deep in to the bin looking

Good for you. You can make your own decisions about what you do with your money. I’m happy to chuck a few quid at people who provide a valuable service for me.

I also work outside in all weather and don’t get tips. I don’t think what other people do for work is relevant.