To not give the postman a Christmas bung

We always give the postie a card with £10 in. Ours is brilliant! Loves a chat and great for a local gossip!

Agree thats annoying, it sounds like very bad sorting.
Where I live there have been so many new houses built that the postman can no longer complete the rounds each day so they have to stagger what they take out. The post office hasn't employed extra staff.
In 20 years I'm told that this is the worst Xmas for post volume. I've had delays in parcels since the beginning of November.

You don't give tips to anyone ever as a thank you?

We tip our postman because he is amazing! We moved house to the next road and it all got very complicated (several redirections in place in different names!) and he just knows what post is ours and delivers it to us. He is one in a million!

@Redandwhiterose I do tip certain people who give a good service but sadly the Postman doesn't fall into that category these days.
On the few days that they do deliver it is not unusual for us to have next doors mail mixed in with ours or in fact only their mail put through the letterbox. And after having to cancel my credit card due to a fraud of unknown origin a few weeks ago, I was not impressed that one of my neighbours delivered my post which included my replacement credit card as a batch of our mail had been delivered to his house.

We don't have a regular postie any more, but I did leave a card with a fiver in for my milkman - he's only a young lad and he's out in all weathers at all hours. I have left a card and chocolate for my postie a long while ago when we had a consistent delivery guy though.

I find the whole concept of tipping posties and bin men completely bizarre. Hardly ever see a postie, and bin men are different people every time. I’ll give my hairdresser and beautician a bottle of wine or £10 each though as I see them regularly throughout the year.

One of the nicer things about having a little spare cash is being able to tip people I find. It gives me satisfaction to show my gratitude to someone who is pulling out all the stops to do a good service and since I have friends in retail, postal service and nursing I know that it is enormously appreciated. If you are working a 6 day week of 12 hour plus shifts in the rain to deliver Christmas despite the enormous backlog of mail that tip is much appreciated

I used to when I’d get daily posts and the same postie…now I’m lucky if postie (several different ones sometimes) cones once or trice a week! Lots of mail delivered late despite having first class stamp on them and lots of mail lost..post at times flung near post box as opposed to IN postbox so if raining, post gets wet…so no, there will be no tips this year 😒

That's such a sad attitude.

It's a yearly Christmas gift, not a tip.

They leave us a card and wrapped toffee, we leave a card and small gift of cash..

Projection much?

I leave beer/chocolates/biscuits for the bin men. They do a job that very few people want to do - but are happy to complain about - it’s very poorly paid, they’re outside in all weathers, no matter how hot, cold or wet it is.

i don’t give them cash tips (although I know others do) as they’re not supposed to accept any gratuities/gifts/tips and I wouldn’t want to put them in an awkward position or get them in trouble.

My postie barely delivers anything, never see them on the street anymore, wouldn’t even know if we had a regular one or not. What I do know is I’ve had a lot of lost mail this year, so no, I won’t be giving mine a tip.

I could easily only get my black bin and dry recycled emptied every couple of months. There is nothing that would go off in there. I guess after many, many months it would degrade and turn to mush.
The food bin....now that would be grim!

You have rubbish that has sat in your bins for up to a couple of months?!

I give my regular postie a cash gift. However Im in business and he has done me a few extra favours over the years. I dont tip the bin men because I am single and only put the bins out every couple of months when they are full so I dont "know" the bin men.

I haven't tipped the postman since we last had a permanent one and that was about 20 years ago.
We currently only get letter deliveries twice a week and that's not because there's no letters for us, it's because they only deliver packets/parcels every day and then you get a batch of letters on the day you do get a delivery.
I've never tipped the binmen. We've got wheely bins which we have to wheel to the edge of the drive. They move them about 2 meters onto the truck and then randomly scatter the streets bins back on the pavement.
Growing up, binmen provided a back yard/garden service where they came and collected your non wheeled bin from it's storage place, took the lid off, hoicked it onto their back and carried it around the front to the road to empty, before returning it to the back of your house and putting the lid back on. Now that was worthy of a tip!

Never even thought about tipping the postman tbh 🙄
I give the binmen a tenner though because they always take all my extra bags 😂

It's not because there is no post it's because they limit the deliveries to each street so they only deliver regardless of how many letters a few times a week. It's been happening for years and we're not even a rural area, quite the opposite. I'm always amazed when other areas actually have 5 days of deliveries.

Maybe no-one writes to you? That being said, we don’t tip either.

When I was a child, back in the 60's, I remember the binmen and the window cleaner actually knocking on the door asking for tips at Christmas! They used to refer to it as the 'Christmas Box'.