Why can I buy the postman?

[Snap8TheCat]

Our postman is brilliant and I usually stick a fiver in a card as a Christmas tip. It doesn’t seem enough though really and a bit impersonal.

Any ideas?

My guess would be cash is best. Especially if you know nothing about him and his likes/dislikes. Imagine if everyone gave him a bottle of bubbly or a box of chocolate, it would be a nightmare.

costa or starbucks gift card in a card with note saying have a coffee and cake on us

The Costa card is a great idea, nicking that!

We give scratchcards to our postman. Beer for the binmen though (some kind of tradition, I think!).

My husband is a postman & honestly, cash is best. Costa/Starbucks gift card is nice but if my husband got one he would probably pass it to me as he doesn't drink tea/coffee, whereas I have a slight hot chocolate addiction at the moment! With cash he can buy himself what he fancies. But I'd like to stress that he does not expect any tips/gifts & any that he does receive are very much appreciated. I don't tip my postman, but then again he usually clears my purse out in the mornings anyways

Former postie, cash is lovely but never expected. I personally was always made up when residents on my regular round would give me little boxes of chocolates or shortbread biscuits. Always appreciated and enjoyed when I was shattered after delivering endless parcels. My favourite tip ever was a fresh batch of homemade cinnamon buns from a lovely young polish lady who I delivered to on a cold Christmas Eve. They were delicious and I still fantasize about having some more.

Give him a tenner. Or more.

Why can you buy the postman???

I don't know, is it a Black Friday thing? Are they going for a standard rate or does it depend on their dimensions? Do they have to be able to fit through your letterbox???

Willfully taking your typo at face value

I don’t know, why can you buy the postman?!

But seriously, I have no idea who my postman is. I’m sure there are a variety round here. No idea about average weekdays as they seem to come at any random time on a Saturday. Do you stand waiting athe window all morning and then rush to the door to see him?

CorbynsBeard our bin men aren't allowed to have beer anymore as they aren't allowed to have alcohol in the vehicle
Last year they knocked on the door to apologise that they'd have to leave it behind and asked (very politely) for quality street instead next time!!!

We just do cards with cash for Rick, our postman and the bin men. Rick is excellent and does extras like taking post, checking on the elderly neighbours and passing messages to others in the village. He’ll return errant dogs and knows everyone. The bin men are also good and help the older locals get their bins out and put away. They’ll even swap the bins if the wrong ones are out. They take extra bags and never make a fuss.

How much do you give though Crumbs, that is the question.

DH was always touched when he got cash at Christmas. He sometimes got biscuits and once a fine bottle of whisky (from the now Archbishop of Canterbury!).

That's unusual on a rural round Crumbs, round here the postie has far too many villages to cover to act like a veritable postman Pat.

We have an absolutely lovely postman! And what is most shocking is that I live fairly centrally in London. In the past, I don't think I could have told you who our postman was as they changed so often but over the last year or so we have had the same young (good looking!) postman who does little extras like making sure the post of upstairs actually goes to the side door which no-one else can be bothered to do so we always get their post. He also knows which neighbours I will take in packages for and which I won't. He helped sort out some missing post when we were off site and having post redirected. Anyway, I want to give him something this year which I have never felt moved to do before! I think I will play it safe with the box of chocolates though.

Sorry about the typo.

Our postman is lovely and very helpful. I don’t wait at the bloody window but he’s been delivering to us for nearly 10 years so I think I’d recognise him. Plus if I’m not in to receive a parcel he will stop on his way back out the village if my car is now home. Or he will take my red card to pick up a parcel from the sorting office and bring it with him the next day as ours is such a ball ache to get to.

He def deserves a Christmas tip.

I feel awful now, I don’t know who our postman is, I never catch him.

My god, don’t get him a Costa voucher. A fiver is fine, it’s very nice.

We have a long term helpful postman and I stick a £10 in a card

Alan Johnson's memoirs. This Boy, Please Mister Postman and The Long and Winding Road. Or maybe the fiver.

We give our postman a card with a fiver in it. He's sweet and doesn't object to our idiotic barking head yorkshire terrier.

I didn't know about the alcohol/binmen thing - I usually leave a four pack of lager and beer. They leave biscuits for the dog on blue bin days.

I give our milkman £5 (he only delivers once a week), postman £10 (he's great), and dustmen £20 (they take all sorts of rubbish they probably shouldn't and there's a few of them).

We’ve had same chap for years. I don’t think it adds much time to his rounds - dogs aren’t running wild every day. Just a ‘morning’ to the oldies and a brief mention that he hasn’t seen Archie for a few days to slightly younger locals. It’s nice.