To not give the postman a Christmas bung

[MurkyMo]

...to not give the postman a Christmas card with a fiver in it. Husband wants to but I say no. As for the bin men, not a chance !

What do you do?

for reference:
I am not the OP
i am not showing off
i am really grateful to my postie who goes over and above what his role is and has actually saved us money

Only on MN could people be twats about a kind gesture

It is as a tip for a postie

My partner is a postman & it makes his day when he gets a tip. He loves his job & genuinely goes above and beyond, but I guess it depends what yours is like day to day.

I never tip anyone but if your husband wants to tip the postman I wouldn’t care much.

You'd normally tip those people because rain, hail, or shine, they are out there performing a service for you. Do you tip taxi drivers?

Yes & it also depends how much spare money families have too
Some just can't afford

Give the guy a fiver for heaven’s sake

No, and I also don’t tip pilots, bus drivers or train drivers. I also don’t tip the checkout personnel at Tesco or the border staff checking my passport.

Do you?

Christmas bung? Not heard that before 🤣

We used to give our posties £20 each,they were great but they've both retired and the service is shocking and I couldn't tell you who they are so we stopped.

Indeed. I've never understood this and nor have I ever "tipped" for Christmas.

It seems that there are a lot of postmen & women on this thread

I’ll only reconsider tipping when politicians stop tipping themselves with our wages, with their extremely generous expenses, and taxpayer-financed booze (which they drank during lockdown).

Never. They are being paid to do the job they are doing. Why the heck do I need to chuck a fiver or a tenner at them to 'thank them' for doing the job they are paid to do? And as I (and some others have said) some of them earn more than me! And as for 'the binmen do a job no-one else wants to do' as someone said earlie, what a joke! It's not a hard job, the bin wagon does most of the job for them, and they get paid a good bloody wage! 'Oh but they're out in all weathers.... ' someone said. Yeah, so?

Bin men get paid about 25k. Not exactly a ‘good bloody wage’ is it? It’s a crappy job, they deserve a tip.

Less than that. I work in the industry and we’ve just advertised a full time post for £24,300. That’s in an expensive part of the south east!

Still more than some people get, and no they don't 'deserve' a tip, they work no harder than anyone else. Wheeling a few bins to the bin wagon that does all the work for them. Big whoop. 🙄 AND they get paid more than £25K in some parts of the country.

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Experienced drivers of bin wagons earn £33+ The £24,400 for the bin collectors is a starting salarly that quickly rises. Considerably more than our pensions. Should we still tip them?

That’s 5k more than me. Perhaps they should give me a tip!

Ever since Covid we give our postman £20 in a card. He was wonderful throughout that period, checking in with older folk who lived on their own He is fantastic at his job and I do order a lot of stuff!

Because there’s about 30 people working in Sainsbury’s so impossible to tip them all and the post man is a more personal service and I’ve got to know mine over the past 10 years, he goes above and beyond for us so it’s nice to show appreciation if you can afford it

Or not.

Always tip the postman, milkman and window cleaner. Used to do the bin men but they have done a few annoying things so we've stopped.

I have a bag for life and let all delivery drivers at the end of November / in December pick something out of it. Big sweets etc. this makes sure it is fair across the delivery services and we get more this time of year anyway.

I buy the window cleaner a present (he has a special diet so this year it was nice coffee and beef jerky rather than the usual chocolates).

I do a gift bag with sweets and chocolates and biscuits etc for both bin teams. We also pay someone to clean our bins once a month so they get some chocolates.

The children go to guides and the leaders are volunteers so they get some chocolates or something or other. We buy big boxes of biscuits for the school. We also get the swimming and football teachers something similar.

This is just how it was growing up so I’ve never second guessed it until this year when I realised my friends didn’t do this. We live in a small village so I think it seems common.

I give £20 to the postie and bin men