Do you tip the binmen and postie at Christmas?

[bunny2]

My parents do, I dont, should I? If so how much?

I'm going to this year, a fiver each, they are very sweet, and the milkman

I usually give them a box of choca and a card.
You have reminded me I have still to buy them.

i've never tipped the postman but we tried to tip the binmen last year but missed them.()! (they're really good round here and take loads of extra stuff!

we tipped the window cleaners yesterday, just a fiver for a pint each

Will you leave it on the bin? Someone might nick it round here.

Is that a fiver per bin man?

Certainly not the bin men if you live in Haringey (don't get me started)
And only postie if he doesn't strew your steps with elastic bands

Not a fiver per bin man!!!!! That would be about £60. I don't know where you leave the binmens money as i will see them (i hope) the milkman is easy, and i will leave the postmans at the letter box. Binmen are always in such a rush, and if they saw a envelope would probably throw it

There's no way I'd tip the dustbin men in Bromley!! I often have to put the bin back where it belongs, pick up the rubbish they've dropped and often they don't pick up all the rubbish anyway!!

As for the postman - yes, he's a lovely man and I'd be happy to tip him - if only I could catch him. He's usually around very early

Festivefly, how do you know your milkman is easy?

I used to tip the Bromley binmen. When they weren't on strike.

He's easy to tip, i just leave it under the bottle. If your suggesting other things, aren't all our children secretely fathered by them?

tenner and a bottle of wine each for the binmen (we only have 2) and the postlady. milkman used to get it too but the bastard retired last week.

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Bloody mancs

is that why the postman is being mega friendly to me then is it? wants a christmas tip?

I wouldn't mind tipping the bin men if I saw them, but that would be logistically quite hard to do since I'll be at work when they do the collection....

Gorblimey missus, never occurred to me. Our postie is terribly sweet (stopped dp in the street to tell him how happy he was for us when I'd had the baby), perhaps I should.

I am NOT tipping the scrofulous Worzel Gummidge who sullenly chucks a newspaper at our step if he can't force one of us to take it physically from him.

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Absolutely NOT!

We have a different postman every other week.

As for the binmen???! My goodness they are crap. If our wheelie bin is too full, they don't empty it (where's the logic)..... if you leave extra rubbish in black bags beside the wheelie bin they won't touch them(they order a special pickup, which is actually the same truck and men, but 3 hours later)...
The old (80yrs old!) woman next door to me had new turf out down in her garden. The old turf was lying in rolls on her driveway. She ordered a special devlivery to collect the turf, but when they arrived they tild her they could only collect it if it was bagged!!! She had to stand and bag the entire gardens worth of turf while they stood and watched.

Disgusting..... the can feck right off! I pay enough feckin Council Tax and I STILL have to pay extra to get the bloody wheelie bin cleaned!!!

Just call me scrooge.

Not here either.

Binmen we never see - have communal bins for apartment and they are sorted out by concierge for us weekly.

Postman we rarely see either. He delivers VERY early as we are in the city centre. And if we have anything too big for the mail box or needs signing he refuses to use the lift and come upstairs for me, even though I explained that I couldn't come down there and then as I have a baby who'd just come out of bat. He just said NO and left a acrd, meaning I had to rearrange for another time - and try to make sure DD was suitable dressed and ready for when he got there.

I tend not to for the binmen as we just don't see them and like others have said, it is difficult to know where to leave envelope without them mindlessly dumping it !

Postie is lovely and will get a tip, our old postie (prev house) was fab. She used to come back to our house when she'd finished her round if she had a parcel or something that had to be signed for or wouldn't fit into the box as she knew we had a newborn. She never used the doorbell, always knocked so as not to wake DD. I really wish we could have brought her with us.... The new one is very nice too though, I think a fiver in an xmas card is more than sufficient for him.

Fio2 - hmmm, my postie is being v friendly too! Keeps knocking with packages that I'm sure would go through the letter box.... Still he is nice!

I don't think they're allowed to do that ringing the doorbell, grinning and saying happy xmas any more! I remember that too. I will leave something for milkman who suprisingly has just left me latest bill which gives perfect opportunity to leave an extra fiver and postman if I catch him. Not binmen, lazy sods, make more mess than they clear up.

We don't have a milkman.