Do you give your post/bin/milk/delivery man a Christmas gift?

[Newdad19]

If so, what do you give them?

@SpeckledyHen

Yes . Postie gets £20 and each bin man gets the same . The bin men seem to have been saying ‘thank you’ this year by returning our bin onto the drive into position next to the recycling bin . Most of the others in the road are left out.

Now this is interesting like the thought of them putting the bins away! That's got to be worth £20!!

We'll get something for the postman, he's lovely. Probably the binmen too; it's not a pleasant job they're doing. DH may drop something in to our butcher.

I'll get something nice for my cleaner, because she works hard. Luckily she's me, so that works out well for both of us.

No. Having worked in the NHS, we had it drilled into us that we couldn't accept cash from patients. I don't see why it's different for bin men or post workers. I'm surprised so many people do this.

No, I never see any of them I don’t know them, never done this

How do you give the bin men a gift though? Do you wait for them to come and hand out cards?

@stingofthebutterfly I’m NHS but we regularly accept monetary vouchers, sometimes cash (to be fair tends to be more large sums for the unit as a whole), then the other presents. There’s a lot of cash accepting in the NHS, I believe it initially came from being bribed for certain care

No. I've worked for all my fivers and tenners. I don't have so many that I can go chucking them out into the street like Lady Muck.

It's not something I do.

[quote Mummyme87]@stingofthebutterfly I’m NHS but we regularly accept monetary vouchers, sometimes cash (to be fair tends to be more large sums for the unit as a whole), then the other presents. There’s a lot of cash accepting in the NHS, I believe it initially came from being bribed for certain care[/quote]
Hope you're declaring all those gifts. NHS here too, our governance rules don't allow us to accept monetary gifts, donations to wards etc have to go via formal routes.

I'm guessing now is too early, but how close to Christmas should I do this?

Yes Sean our postie is lovely he gets a tenner and chocolate he was quite emotional last year as it was the first time he had got a gift for Xmas from his work :)

Usually have selection boxes by the front door for delivery drivers and the bin men who my dog adores.

I tend not to tbh, simply because there’s too many of each! Delivery people - we have 5/6 regulars, bin men are a different crew/lorry for each bin - I don’t know how I would work out who gets what?

I’ve always tipped the hairdresser, and my dog walker gets a tip/gift too but that’s it.

I remember when I was wee my folks would always have a card/cash for the milkman, paperboy etc, but they always got to know them over the year as it was the same person every week. I also think it’s a bit different between villages where you know everyone and big towns/cities where it could be a different person each week.

We live in a small Hamlet and the residents all club together. We usually put together a hamper for the postie with some lovely things in it and some cash for the bin men

Milkman we'll probably put £20 in a card, without him in various periods of isolation we would've been stuck given the lack of supermarket slots. Postie is always someone different and our binmen are awful. We have to put bags out rather than bins (we have a wheelie bin but just for storing the rubbish until bin day) and almost every week they split one open in the road and just leave rubbish everywhere, particularly memorable was neighbours' across the road that gem was filled with cat litter and nappies.

Binmen get nothing because they're useless. Milkman gets a tenner in a card. My postman keeps changing but I'd like to give the nice one a tenner. Hairdresser gets £20 in a card at my last appointment before Christmas. She is lovely and works independently. I don't get a lot of beauty treatments but if I do get one in December I will probably give a card and a tenner. My cleaner gets a week's wages, a bottle of fizz and I normally buy a gift for her young son.

Nope.

Christmas box, yep. Always have.

I usually give the postman a bottle of bubbles and a big biscuit tin. He's lovely and has done the same route for donkeys years. One year I gave him a kiss on both cheeks too, but I think that was just my excitement at something else and now we pretend that never happened 😂

Our nanny and cleaner both get a weeks wages in a card. And I buy lovely gifts for our nanny too, as she's my favourite person ever 😂

The bin men are too quick and gone. They leave our bins in the middle of the drive blocking the gate. So I could either think bugger it no present, or present and hope they put the bins neatly to the side. Haven't decided yet!!

No. The milkman comes at 3am, we never seem to have the same postie/delivery people. I’ve never seen the bin men, they must come really early as well.

We've had a really good postman all year, and I would have given him a tip, but he seems to have suddenly disappeared and now random people deliver! I won't bother with the bin men as they come so early (5.30 am) and make such a lot of noise, laughing and shouting to each other, then chuck the food bin anywhere on the pavement.

I will tip the milkman £10 - always reliable.
My hairdresser £15.
Cleaners - probably a box of chocolates or biscuits between them (3 in same family)
Beautician - £10 and a bottle of something
Gardener - Couple of bottles of good wine

Tried to give the window cleaner a tip last year - he is fantastically reliable - but he wouldn't take it!!

I'll get something nice for my cleaner, because she works hard. Luckily she's me, so that works out well for both of us.
Ha! Love this, I might do the same.

I have just moved but in the past I've taped an envelope with £20 in it for the bin men (who always took more rubbish than strictly allowed), £10 for postie. For window cleaner, if I see them, a bottle. I used to have a car valet every couple months he got a £20. My mum used to only tip her hairdresser at Christmas with a nice gift and gave about $100 to the doormen/ security guys (plus she plied them with cake throughout the year). I bet most don't give anything though, it's not like back in the day when it was the same person delivering mail to you for years.

My postlady is my sons school friends mum I feel really odd giving her money but seems mean not to, any ideas?

No we don't. I'm not against it but I don't think I've ever met any of these people, they constantly change and if I see them it's for all of 10 seconds when I see the back of them after they've dropped a parcel off.

I think its separately a bit odd to decide who gets a gift based on quite uninformed opinions on who is a 'good' or 'bad person' and who therefore deserves reward or not for the same work. It is unlikely we know these peoples lives or struggles. Either gift to all because it's kind and its xmas or gift to reward the service they provide, not reward who is friendly, or able to performatively be as such. We aren't Father Christmas

We give the postman and the bin men something - they're really reliable and always smile at our toddler. This year we'll also give the local road sweeper something as he is so sweet at answering the toddler's squillion questions about brushes.