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!

No, I don't usually tip the delivery driver - but today's was a huge order, and it must be crap being on the roads today.

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It’s a mine field at times!

I don't normally tip the supermarket delivery drivers but will do when I get my delivery on the 23rd.

We gave DC's key worker at nursery a bottle of bubbly and chocolates to the other staff to share.

Always tip restaurant staff 10-15% at all times of year unless the service is terrible.

No tips for the binmen because half of the time they don't do their job properly. Postman likewise.

I don't tip anyone. I completely disagree with it on principle and whilst we are all tipping we are enabling the culture for people to supplement their income with tips.

In America, so absolutely.

Mailman, UPS man, bin man, gardener, hairdresser, school bus driver...

CLeaner gets a weeks money on an M&S card. The staff at the nail bar get £20 to share as I don't tip during the year. If I saw one of my regular Tesco drivers I would give them £10 but it's been all new guys for the last 6 weeks. Ditto the postman. I used to tip the bin men but not this lot. They seem to leave more in the road than they get into the truck.

Nobody! Never understood this really. Not even if our binmen did their job properly - put the bin back in exactly the same place they found it and NOT blocking our driveway - so we then have to block the main road while we stop the car to move it. Wankers. Postie is different every day. Would rather give money to the Salvation Army and suchlike.

£10 in a card for the paperboy, crate of beer for the bin men

I’d like to tip the binmen (we seem to have so many bags each week) but have failed to do it yet because I never see them (have gone to work before they come). Is it too late to do it next Wednesday? And how do you do it? Rush out and give cash in hand to one of them, assuming they will share it? Or in an envelope?

We don’t seem to have a regular postman so no tip there. And I don’t have a regular hairdresser either (sob), so likewise.

We tipped the cleaner £200 but this is partly because she keeps doing overtime and refusing to be paid. Also some flowers and photo of her with the baby (who adores her, as do I).

I tip £10 each to some of the young delivery / wait-staff (in canteen) at work.

Seems somehow weird to tip the people in my older son’s nursery because I don’t pay them directly (though now paranoid it isn’t), so just got little gifts for them.

Thanks for this thread — informative!

We usually get a box of chocs/nice biscuits for the postman but have been disorganised this year so he'll be getting a fiver in a card.

It's never occurred to me to tip the Tesco delivery driver as it's someone different every time.

We tip restaurant staff all year round. Don't feel the need to tip them extra because it's around Christmas time.

I gave my hairdresser a decent tip the other day as it's Christmas, I don't usually tip. Other than that I gave my Pilates teacher a bottle of wine and brought a box of chocolates for the workers at the cafe where I get my morning coffee on work days. They were very surprised and happy. It would never occur to me to tip bin men and postie tbh but I do n't think it's expected here (Oz).

Postie - bottle of fizz
Childminder - bottle of fizz
Cleaner - £20
Server at cafe DS & I visit after school on Fridays - bottle of fizz and double tip

I tip the porter for my block of flats. My hairdresser (I don't the rest of the year) and my cleaner.

Latter usually gets two weeks money as a tip.

I never see the postman and ocado send someone different every time (or so it seems).

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...

Not mean at all, I'm with you on this one. Very patronising. Like a pat on the head for if they are clever enough to do a little bit extra or "a very well done" job.
Also strange how some are deemed worthy of a tip but others doing jobs just as minimum wage don't get a look in.