To ask who/if you tip at Christmas?

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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!

Sophia The bin men here are ace but the postman I sometimes have to a second fix on his job! (Deliver the post to the correct street!)

In our old house we had a regular postie and we tipped him, and we'd had a long standing milkman so ditto. In our new house the postie seems to be anyone that can walk and read, and the milkman is v new, so not this year.

Cleaner we give vouchers to (approx 1 week's cleaning fees).
VVVV understanding babysitter (takes DS home from school and plays hide and seek for 2 hours weekly) we also give about 1 week's fees to, again vouchers.
(We chose M&S for the cleaner and Amazon for the babysitter so more or less cash - not a specialist gift type voucher).

We never have the same bin operatives or delivery driver (heck, we never have the same supermarket twice in a row, almost!)

No one. Don't have a cleaner, nanny, hairdresser, window cleaner, food delivery driver and the postie keeps changing in this block of flats.

Huge box of cider for the binmen

Pack of minstrell for the postie (when we see him/her)

Don't have others like that.

DS made home-made bix for his fave teachers.

I tip restaurant staff. A 'one for yourself' for the bar staff. I will give the bin men a tub of roses if I catch them. I won't be tipping the postman, he regularly delivers downstairs post to me, I've pointed it out and he just shrugs. I end up walking round (entrances at opposite sides) most days to do his job for him. It's a pain in the arse when it's 5 days out of 7. So his tip would be do your job! I've given a card and tub of sweets to the local shop for the staff, they're very good and go out of their way for you.

None of them.

I gave the cleaner £20 in her Christmas card. Like PP we have different delivery drivers and post people all the time, so not going to tip.

i tipped my cleaner £20 today

No milkman or window cleaner.
Postman is shit and posts everyones post through which ever door he feels like (school got my full medical examination results once)
Actually though our bin men are great and take my bin for me if I forget to put it out so I might get them some chocs after Christmas as I've missed them now.

I do tip at Xmas but am never sure I'm getting it right. This year I've tipped:

Cleaner - extra week's wages and bottle of champers
Gardener (who designed and looks after my rose garden and has also been very helpful with general household stuff) - £50
Garden maintenance guy and son, who mow lawns/ cut hedges every fortnight- £20 each
Driver (Who drives me to the station and back most weeks for my weekly commute)- £50
Handyman/ joiner who has been so helpful and gone above and beyond for me - £50.
Hairdresser - £50 and girl who washes my hair - £20

I don't tip the postman (I never see him, so have no idea if it is one regular person). I don't tip the Tesco delivery guy either, as it's a different person every time.

Used to tip the binmen but they started turning the wheelie bin round so that the handle sticks in the hedgewhen they've emptied it, so I stopped.

Postie, cleaner.

I'm carer so I'm too poor to tip people!

Provatey, that's a new one 😂

Then again where I live the postal workers doesn't knock to deliver parcels, they just put the card through the door. And the refuse collectors I never see as we don't have bins. We have bin bags which we leave at the top of the street! And I can't afford a hair cut/meals out!

Hadtobloody
Any vacancies ! 😊

I wish I had a driver and a rose garden

It's interesting to see how other people live from these types of threads.

I tip my hairdresser at Christmas as I always feel like I’m stealing from her anyway she’s so cheap!!

I have never met my postie or my bin men so it wouldn’t occur to me.
I don’t think we have the same postie in all honesty.

I always tip in restaurants anyway.

The only tip I’d give hermes (the only courier I’ve really dealt with lately) to actually try a little harder to deliver!!

The staff in my favourite cafe get a tip from me. I would tip my postman,but it's a different one every couple of weeks!

Dont tip ever whatever time of year

Oldbird - my LA tells the bin me to put the handles into the eall/ hedge but we have to put handles facing out to make life easier for them. Doesnt make sense to me

Regular postman (has done the round for years) £10.
Window cleaner £9 (fortnightly charge x 2).
Chip shop - a couple of quid change from my order on the last visit before Christmas.
I don't tip the bin men though.

Just take out if we order any. I over tip at christmas. About 10. I always tip through the rest of the year. It's a habit as dh does deliveries as part of his job

I don't tip at all as a rule. People are paid to do a job! Tips used to be a class thing - the poor workers would get a tip from the gentry. It's patronising and inappropriate. Or I am just mean...