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

[Newdad19]

If so, what do you give them?

I’ve never given any kind of ‘tip’ to bin men. I’m bemused that people do. It’s a well paid job, with one of the best Occupational Pensions (Local Authority) and all the difficultly was taken out of the job years ago, no lifting etc. Bins have to be placed in a convenient position by householders, it is then wheeled to the lorry, placed on a platform and the mechanism tips it. The bin men then wheels it off and puts it back on the pavement 🤷‍♀️ Why do this work merit a tip?

@AnnieSnap

I’ve never given any kind of ‘tip’ to bin men. I’m bemused that people do. It’s a well paid job, with one of the best Occupational Pensions (Local Authority) and all the difficultly was taken out of the job years ago, no lifting etc. Bins have to be placed in a convenient position by householders, it is then wheeled to the lorry, placed on a platform and the mechanism tips it. The bin men then wheels it off and puts it back on the pavement 🤷‍♀️ Why do this work merit a tip?

I read somewhere the bin man is actually one of the most dangerous jobs in this country.

Due to having to jump on and off the road in the dark, fog, snow, etc... (poor visibility and slippy conditions) in early morning rush hour time they apparently get struck and run over even more often than any other profession including breakdown mechanics and highway road workers.

Yes - postman, bin men, milkman, paper ‘boy’ (a man). Our postman is lovely, and it pays to tip the bin men - they always bring our bins back to the right place, and don’t leave any mess.

Do you put £5'a in the bin mens cards? How do they share it out .. there is usually 3 or 4 of them here, usually the same ones, but I'd be gutted if it was temps or someone swiped the cash overnight ?

No we don't have a regular postman, we have various different ones as well as various different amazon, asda etc delivery drivers.
The only one who is regular is the Hermes lady but she doesn't come to us very often.

We don't have a regular cleaner, dog walker or anything like that but if we did I would probably give them a Christmas tip in the region of £20.

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.

My cleaner (me) does a rubbish job so I will probably only get her one box of chocs this year

My tutor is expecting a thank you card and spending money. I am going to buy a box of nice Quality Street chocolates and some biscuits for the painters and repair people. The postman receives a big smile, that is his gift each week from me. Delivery men get a smile too. Bin collectors again a smile, that is it.

I did tip the postie last year, have an Amazon voucher, as it was lockdown and they did great, but won't this year. I hope they don't get disappointed ☹️ Just as now I tend to get more stuff via my Hermes as it's so much cheaper to
send via and the Hermes man's an arse and we don't really get much post.

Our wonderful postman gets a tin of posh biscuits, as did the lovely milkman until he retired 😭 The bin men get diddly squat because they've broken our compost bin three times and always leave the wheelie bin in the actual road, no matter how many times they're asked not to do so...

It’s also important to bear in mind income. Both DH and me are retired and have a fixed and much smaller incomes than when we were working.