Oh dear- was I U re online shop delivery?

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Just had my first ever online shop delivered and have just had the terrible thought that I should have given the delivery guy a tip. Should I? Do people usually tip the driver and is he now thinking I was very U not to do so?

I don't tip the driver - they cannot accept any money or anything from you

No.

No, I have never heard of anyone doing this

I have never tipped a driver. Do you tip the checkout person? The trolley collector? of course not.

No. Ive never tipped any driver.

No, I don't tip online shopping delivery guys. I don't tip pizza delivery guys either.

I don't see why their job is seen as worthy of a tip just because they have come to your door.

A tip is given in recognition of good service. A delivery guy is only partly responsible for whether he gives good service, and there's not that much good service that can be done in two minutes in your doorstep anyway.

If he had to carry 20 bags of shopping up three flights of stairs to get to a flat, then there is space for generosity. Otherwise, no.

Oh good, thanks. I usually tip the takeaway delivery guy and thought it might be the same.

Hang on. You do tip the takeaway guy, don't you?

I think topping the takeaway guy is a bit mean :o

Have never had a takeaway delivered so never thought about tipping

I never tip. I had a pang the first time, but then remembered that I (used to) spend too much time on an American discussion board where people used to squabble over whether to tip the hairdresser 30% or 35% (usually accompanied by one sanctimonious "I always tip at least 50%") and the tipping culture here is completely different.

Sorry - I never tip the supermarket delivery man, I mean, not that I never ever tip anybody!

Ha! Topping! I have never topped the takeaway guy, honest- but I do tip the following:
Takeaway guy
Hairdresser
Taxi driver
Waiting staff
Is this wrong? Should I stop? I guess I usually give about 5-10% but it's not an exact science, except in restaurants where I always give at least 10%.

Am I a tipping freak?

Don't tip either shopping delivery guy or takeaway delivery, I don't believe in tipping people who have done what they are employed and paid to do.

I only tip in a restaurant and only if the service was good, around 10%
I don't tip anyone else.

I tip in restaurants every time, unless service was awful, about 10%.
I tip my hairdresser and the window cleaner at christmas.
That is it.

I usually round up takeaway to nearest £5 so tip will be about £2, taxi fares up to the next £1, so about 50p on £5 ish journey, and 10% on waiting staff. I don't tip the hairdresser though.

Supermarket delivery guys aren't allowed to accept tips.

I dont tip at all. Dont see the point.

I will sometimes tell the taxi driver, takeaway driver, hairdresser to keep the change if it a pound or something.

I believe that it is up to the company/employers to pay their employees a good wage.

I wouldn't tip

i have never been to the States - partly because one of the things that terrifies me is the tipping thing...I would be in a permanent state of tension: how much do i tip? who do I tip? shit was that too little? Is he going to spit in my vodka martini? etc etc etc

I tip hair dressers (usually about £5-10, depending on what I had done), takeaway delivery guys (but only if I'm paying in cash, and then I just round up and maybe throw in an extra couple of ££ if it's pissing it down outside), taxi drivers (again, I just round up), and servers in nice restaurants (at least 20%, but I'm American, and old habits die hard).

I don't rip restaurants as when I was 14 I worked in a restaurant that would pay our pages out of our tip money, effectively keeping the tip tight arses my boss can did this on Xmas day, our "rate" was £10 an hour, a lovely gentleman tipped each waitress £10, and he used this for our wages so we went home with £30 instead of £40!

I don't tip the shopping delivery drivers as a rule. I've only made an exception to this rule twice: once at Christmas (big order) and another time at Easter when we seemed to have ordered half the shop and the poor guy was puffing and panting, he really earned it!

I am over-generous with the tipping but it's because I've spent lots of time in the States and have been brainwashed by their tipping culture.

Am confused though as have also spent time in Belgium, Netherlands and other countries where they never ever tip and you get very funny looks if you do, even in restaurants!

I tip delivery people etc at Christmas only.

God tipping confusion really annoys me. I don't get tipped when I do a good job- why are there some jobs which apparently do expect tips?

Surely if you've arranged a service (eg, sat down in a restaurant, paid for a supermarket delivery) then the price quoted includes having the food brought to you- because the person doing that job is worthy of being paid for actually doing it?

Obviously there is some minimum standard here- so if your waitress gets your order spectactularly wrong, or the delivery driver chucks your food over the back fence, then they haven't done their job properly. But then you'd take it up with the manager or whoever and expect a refund for a service you hadn't received- and they would deal with it accordingly from their end.

As far as I'm concerned if I go out to eat, the price on the menu includes the cost of the table space, the use of the cutlery, toilets, general organisation, food and service. The waiter is doing a job for which they should be adequately paid- no 'optional' about it- so the menu price should include this.

So your delivery driver did the job for which you'd already paid, OP.

If it's really excellent service that goes above and beyond what you'd normally expect (IE, intact food at your front door delivered with basic politeness), then OK, a tip might be nice. But it shouldn't be expected as a given.

No