Do you tip or give a gift toy your post/ dust/ any other person?

[WhereIsMyHat]

In the past we've give our post man a couple of bottles of wine but I think I'd like to give our dust men something but how do you logistically do it? Especially with various ones i.e food waste guys, landfill guys, black box guys and blue box guys.

Do you give cash or a gift? And why do you choose this over the other?

I don't at all.

The dustbin men thing isn't something I've ever heard of in our part of the country but my BIL used to drive the trucks darn sarf and he would get around £500 over the Christmas period.

Xmas card, 20 quid, taped to bin on last day before collection.
Postman, fiver in card.

My parents always used to give £10 in an envelope to bin men & £5 to postie so I've just followed on doing the same & pretty sure most of my friends & neighbours do too (SE)

Dustbin men - i leave 4 cans of beer on top of the bin. I do this as they are very helpful (bringing bin back up drive for me after noticing I had small baby - that baby is now 3 and they still bring it back for me) they always thank me too.
Recycle people I don't but I would if they didn't leave stuff all over my drive and didn't drive like lunatics.
Postman gets chutneys at xmas and homemade biscuits throughout the year. He is a fab postman.
Milklady - This year, she is getting a torch and chutney.

I tip the man who cleans our bins, the recycling people (private company) because they will take any extra if the bin is full and the paperboy. I put £10 in a card for each. I don't tip the dustbin men because they are jobsworths and if it's our regular postie I give him a bottle of something. Trouble is that in the run up to Christmas our regular postie gets moved elsewhere and so we have relief workers who might change daily.

Does anyone tip their window cleaner?

I don't because they are Jehovah's Witnesses and I worry they would be offended.

See, I still have my recycling men dilemma, we have four seperate collections on a Wednesday morning for all the service listed in my OP, giving them all a £10 could get expensive but they're all good and pretty friendly and helpful.

I'm not tipping the window cleaner as I find him odd and pushy. I'm going to talk to H about changing and cancelling tomorrow.

Ooh, never thought about tipping but we have the loveliest post woman ever. What do u give?

Our recycling men come once a fortnight and take everything, the bin men come weekly once for the landfill bin and the following week for the garden waste bin.I'm pretty sure none of my neighbours tip the bin men but most seem to go out with cards or bottles for the recycling lads.

I tip our building cleaner - a tenner in a card - he's been here for years and is always happy and lovely!

I don't tend to, but after Reastie's thread beginning to wonder if I should tip the postie, the yodelie, the hermesie .....

I tip the paper man and the milkman.

I have 4 separate bin collections and the collectors are never the same team, so no to them.

In the past when there was only a dustbin collection, the same team had been there for years and years I used to tip them.