To not give the postman a Christmas bung

Leaving something for the communal cleaner?!

No, no, you can’t do that! It’s not tradition like giving to the postman.

Postman, milkman, bin man - yes! Because it’s Christmas!

Anyone else? No! Everyone else is scum.

That’s crazy over-the-top. The average postman delivers to around 500 houses, so if this was standard, he’d be getting £25,000 in Christmas tips every year!

So you do give him a fiver, original post says you say No?! Which is it??
and £5 is hardly a bung 🙄

Money to burn? £50 isn't exactly show off fodder ffs

I remember my mother giving the bin men a ‘Christmas Box’ as it was known then ie a cash tip and it had the aura then of being a low level protection racket ie if you failed to do so, your bin didn’t get properly emptied or they were extra noisy.

We give our postie £20. He has to put up with our dogs barking at him all year. We have had same postie for about 5 years.

Our postman is a rare sighting. I like the guy if I see him but we get post about three times a week. At one point weeks went by no post - and this is SW London! Not the posties fault I know.
Im not tipping the bin men they come at 6am. I might give the milkman £10 - £5 seems a bit mean.

Yes I don't think you're unreasonable
Numerous folks just can't afford to give money to their postmen 💚

No because it is a different person every time. Same with the bin crew.

There is something rather outdated about the notion of tipping people at Christmas like this. I can't quite describe it, but it's a sense of Lord and Lady Bountiful bestowing their patronage on the underlings.

This. Different posties all the time. Will be leaving something for the communal area cleaner, though.

I had no idea this was a thing. I've ever even met our postman as I'm out at work all day

I used to tip a few people, but I’ve stopped. We’re both pensioners. We’re not struggling, but not well off either.

In fact, I've literally just checked my FB notifications and he's thanked me for the Birthday wishes I sent him this morning.

Our old one was lovely. He would bring parcels around the back knowing I was in the garden office. He'd give a wave if he saw you out and about. He does triathlons and I dabble a bit in that world. We are FB friends. I think he did a good job. I was happy to give him a small Christmas token and he always thanked me.

Yes we give a gift to our post lady. The refuse collectors we don't bother- they frequently leave our bins half way down the street, outside someone else's house.
Can't even be arsed putting it back where they found it.

Thanks for clearing that up. I don't really see ours much. We don't get much post. Parcels come mainly from Amazon and I wouldn't notice if we didn't get post for a week unless i was expecting something

I always make lots of sausage rolls and put them out for the postie, milk man and the bin men. I also make a few for the delivery drivers (we have the same evri/ dpd drivers everytime) Always wrap the bin mens sausage rolls up on a cake board in foil then bagged and place on top of bin with note on for the bin men. Leave posties on the doorstep wrapped in foil and bagged as well as the milk mans. I do this at Easter too.

Let's just say the blindest of eyes is turned on bin days to my overflowing bin. We are supposed to have lid securely down and there are always lots of complaints at bins not been emptied due to the lid not been fully closed. My bin also mysteriously gets returned very close to my drive every week, whereas most of the street's bins are all over the path and 3 houses down. I did inadvertently follow them one year down the road when DD was a baby and wouldn't sleep and I decided to do a 6.30am pram walk as I couldn't listen to the screaming in the house anymore. I watched the bin crew scarf the lot down (about 20 large sausage rolls) between them. I assumed some would make it back to the depot - it seems not. So now I make a batch before Christmas and a batch before new year for both bin crews (waste and recycling alternate here).

Similarly we've never had an issue with the post or milk rounds. Not one of our parcels has ended up in a bin or yeeted over a fence when our usual driver is on.

Mine is a great chap. .... By being friendly, popping the post in a preferred spot, stopping you as you pass by a d asking if you want your post now, or in the letter box, by knocking and letting you know that something has happened (mine told me I left my keys in the door), he saves the elastic bands for my daughter and puts them round all our post. He lets her "help" post leti, always gives her the thumbs up/says "yes I've got it!" when she asks if he got her letter she posted etc

In what way? What does he do other than put letters through your door?
What am I missing? How is it a job you can be fab at?

Oh, Miaow!

Our postman is great. You just made me want to give something. Maybe some chocolates or a bottle of something...

It’s bizarre because you don’t see them! Yet you’re happy to give to hairdresser. Therefore it’s not bizarre a- it’s about who you see and value.

This is the thing. It’s for those who go above and beyond to show your recognition and hope they continue and don’t quite. We’ve actually never done it. But this year we have a fairly regular postie who is great and a fab evri lady who looks after our stuff.

am thinking of a box of chocs. We can’t afford too much but it’s more the token.

If you've got a postie consistently on the same round they absolutely know ALL the gossip!

We don't tip the postman as we don't have a lot of post or parcels & we don't have the same person & haven't done for a few years. My partner is a postman who has a set round (that he's had to fight hard to keep) & he has generous tips, Royal Mail really do need to keep the same postmen/wemon on the same rounds as they get to know the customers, where to leave parcels, occasionally check in on vulnerable older person. Honestly my partner has many stories where he's called an ambulance, helped pick an older person up & even returned a wandering toddler to their house. If you've got a good postie they appreciate a tip or some nice biscuits & even a calipo in the summer. We get our binmen a huge pack of local cider.