Clicky poll: Do you tip your mail carrier?

Soyager · December 2010

This is the first year I've ever considered giving the mail carrier a little sum-thin'. She constantly delivers packages to our house, plus she put up with a broken mailbox door for about a month, and risks her life stopping by our house since we're at an intersection.

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OctoberBabyH · December 2010

SHS: I give them $20 and a bottle of booze. (Something "normal" like Bailey's.) We order a lot of stuff online and USPS delivers most of it. Since I was the size of a house and pregnant, they were so kind and even brought my packages inside for me, insisting that I should not be lifting anything, of course. I always rewarded them with some sun tea so I figured this is the least I could do for the holidays.

littleanomaly · December 2010

One week he just walked through my front yard three days in a row without stopping at my box even though I had activated the bat signal letting him know that hey! I have something to go out!

Sometimes he drops off mail without taking the outgoing (again, bat signal has been activated).

Sometimes (and I've asked my SAHM neighbor to make sure I wasn't going nuts) he decides to skip our street.

We perpetually get mail for someone who must have lived there before 2004.

I feel for him, having to walk around in all types of weather but that's really no excuse for not doing a halfway decent job. My mail-person in the ghetto was far more accurate.

No gift for you Mr Mediocrity.

pixy_stix · December 2010

Our mailperson is awesome. She will be getting macaroons and a card.

nsees · December 2010

I'm giving our's a $10 GC to Dunkin (which is good for our area). I constantly am ordering online, and she also delivers to my husband's business where she takes mail inside and hand delivers frequently.

smurfetteinred · December 2010

They can't accept cash or gifts over $20.

Interesting. As the wife of a postal carrier who has worked in two different states, I have never heard of this before. We typically tip our carrier over $20 and dh has certainly gotten a couple tips bigger than that as well (although if we were still in our house in Ohio, our new carrier would NOT be getting a tip because he sucked)

mrsjjd · December 2010

We had an awesome mail carrier in Texas and I totally would have tipped him or given a gift if I wouldn't have been visting Cali the whole month of Dec. The one we have here, no way, no how, ever!!! I think it fits with my general tipping philosophy, tips are earned for going above and beyond. I don't just give them when someone(barely) does the job they're paid for anyway.

thejennigirl · December 2010

I pph my carriers. Both of them are great about bringing packages to the door, instead of hanging them in bags off of the mailbox. They deliver pretty consistently (noon-ish time).

Is this their job to do these things? Yes. I still tip. This is someone(s) who I have daily interaction with. They perform a pretty thankless service. People love to complain about their mail carriers, but they never brag.

I give them goodies to eat & a card.

Niftyroses · December 2010

How does one tip the mail carrier? Leave it in the mailbox?

danaann78 · December 2010

I'm in a special kind of situation here in that my mail carrier is also the mother of one of the children in my daycare. I've had her son for 4 years and she definitely takes care of my mail needs. So, I always give her son a gift, and I give her a big box of baked treats as well as a GC to Dunkin.

Dobie_Mama · December 2010

Our township doesn't offer home delivery so I don't have a mail carrier to tip. BUT, I do bake cookies for the lady at the PO (even though I think she hates me) and I bake for my UPS dude, too. He always brings treats for my dogs and I

him.

Lotte134 · December 2010

smurfetteinred:
They can't accept cash or gifts over $20.

Interesting. As the wife of a postal carrier who has worked in two different states, I have never heard of this before. We typically tip our carrier over $20 and dh has certainly gotten a couple tips bigger than that as well (although if we were still in our house in Ohio, our new carrier would NOT be getting a tip because he sucked)

Really? I thought that was common knowledge. How strange.

And unfortunately we will not be tipping our carrier because he, like one of our pp's, he skips our street some days or sometimes conveniently doesn't see packages I've left out for him to pick up even though he dropped off our mail and it was sitting directly in front of the mail box.

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