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Original poster

To ask who/if you tip at Christmas?

116 replies

womannotcis · 21/12/2017 14:54

First world issue - Aibu to ask you to share if you tip the following people, and how much if so?...

  • Postal delivery person (we have the same regular postman)
  • Ocado Christmas delivery person (someone different each week, big Christmas order tomorrow, will ask for it to be brought in to kitchen)
  • Council refused collectors
Thanks!
OP posts:
HopingForSomeSnow · 21/12/2017 15:21

Postie - £40 - he is ace and very helpful.
Cleaner - 1 week's cleaning fees and a bottle of champagne.
Window cleaners - £10. They always appear the week before Xmas. Without fail. But I don't see them much the rest of the year!
Waiter in our fave restaurant - £20 on Xmas Eve.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 21/12/2017 15:23

Milkman £5 (he only delivers once a week)
Postman £10
Dustmen £20

Cantspell2 · 21/12/2017 15:24

None

AnxietyOCDDepression · 21/12/2017 15:27

Bus drivers!!!! They so deserve it!

MyToeHurtsBetty · 21/12/2017 15:30

Tesco delivery driver £10 (provided its the usual one and not a newbie!)

But thats it.

JoJoSM2 · 21/12/2017 15:31

We got prezzies for our cleaner and a tutor. Other than that no cash gifts to anyone.

babybubblescomingsoon · 21/12/2017 15:32

Housekeeper and nanny.

Welshmaenad · 21/12/2017 15:32

Gave the bin guys some biscuits and chocolates, my cleaner's getting £20 and a bottle of wine (she's here right now so I'm about to go give it to her). Ocado delivery driver will get a fiver on Saturday because my order is massive! Postman is a cunt and I've an ongoing complaint against him so he's getting fuck all.

I'm having ongoing wound management after surgery and am my GP three times a week to see the nursing team so my 3 nurses all got wine/prosecco and the reception/admin staff a big box of chips and Xmas biscuits because they've been so kind and helpful. Also we live next to a shop and the owners have been really supportive and helpful whilst I've been unwell (and generally actually, I'm a single mum and they're quite protective of me!( so I've made them a hamper of goodies which the children will take round later.

Thisnamechanger · 21/12/2017 15:33

No but my postman is a wanker.

Bumbumtaloo · 21/12/2017 15:34

Wow I feel right now, we gave our post lady £5. We don’t tip anyone else but do give our neighbors either side and the lady across the road a card and a box of biscuits.

Original poster
womannotcis · 21/12/2017 15:43

I wish there was a way of tipping the Ocado people so that the packers etc would share it, as well as whoever happens to deliver tomorrow. I've just realised we've missed the bin collections anyway - that was Monday.

The cleaner is me, I definitely think I deserve a tip.

OP posts:
StripySocks1 · 21/12/2017 15:56

It would never occur to me to tip Ocado because it’s a different driver every time and if I did a supermarket shop I wouldn’t tip the checkout staff so I don’t really see how it’s much different?

If I could get a window cleaner who turned up when they said they would and didn’t disappear off the face of the earth after 2 visits I’d tip them.

I don’t get tipping the postman unless you have a lot of post or they’d gone out of there way to do something for you?

WipsGlitter · 21/12/2017 15:56

I was going to give the Sainsbury's people £20 - they always bring it into the kitchen and are very tolerant of DS2 "helping" them (he has SN).

Tapandgo · 21/12/2017 16:04

Tip hairdresser more at Christmas - or servers in restaurants over the season - that’s it.
I do give Christmas Selection Boxes etc to all the children nearby.

Chchchchangeabout · 21/12/2017 16:07

Cleaner one week's wages. No one else.

scortja · 21/12/2017 16:07

How do you tip the postie? Do you wait til they knock and then hand them £40? What do you say?!

Bumbumtaloo · 21/12/2017 16:34

I tipped our post lady because I do all my shopping online and she is lovely. We put £5 in a card and when she knocked we just gave her the card.

CiderwithBuda · 21/12/2017 16:34

My hairdresser. Saw her a couple of weeks ago so di that then.

Cleaner - £50.

Have never done postman but will put £10 in a card in case I see him tomorrow or Saturday.

Bin and recycling guys are coming tomorrow but I never see them as our drive is weird and long and has a turn in it. No idea how to tip them!

Ou dog walker is lovely and I got her a voucher for a hot stone massage and some REN bath/shower stuff and body oil. She buys the dogs presents!

We are expecting a Sainsbury's delivery any minute now but I never normally get one so haven't needed to think about a tip. Is it normal to tip them?

SauvignonBlanche · 21/12/2017 16:41

I need to tip the binmen as have put loads of extra boxes out but they come bloody early!

Sophia1984 · 21/12/2017 16:45

Only tip I'm going to give the binmen is to put our bin back where they found it rather than halfway down the road.. (turning into my father and/or Scrooge)

I don't know if we get the same postman regularly so not sure whether/how much to tip. Don't feel grown up enough to deal with this! (Aged 33)

TheLastSoala · 21/12/2017 16:53

None. But I know that others on our street do tip the bin men, which means that we can leave out any boxes or rubbish we want after Christmas regardless of council policy.

I feel bad that we don’t tip them, but we aren’t around at the time they collect (and I’m cheap).

starfishmummy · 21/12/2017 16:55

Sophia me too and I'm a lot older than you.

CurryWorst · 21/12/2017 16:55

Nobody. I rarely get post, I don't get milk or anything, and I pay provatey for refuse collection. Who would I be tipping?

BackBoiler · 21/12/2017 16:58

No one although if I had a meal etc I do tip then, I donate a toy to the local charity for children in poverty and money in the boxes of charities what ever I can afford.

YellowMakesMeSmile · 21/12/2017 16:59

The window cleaners get a bottle of something as they do the odd job extra for us without asking for payment.

Other than than its gifts for school staff and any volunteers at clubs.

I don't tip the hair dresser ever as they make enough from a cut and colour as it is.