Do you tip delivery drivers?

biblionerd · December 2011

The "Amazon man" (i.e. UPS man) is here at least 3 times a week it seems. It's just cheaper to buy SO much of our normal everyday stuff from them (cat food, detergent, dish soap, personal hygeine, diapers, wipes, etc. etc.) along with all of the million baby things I've bought the past year. I wanted to tip him something like a starbucks gc and wondered who else does this and what/how much you tip. I was googling and was surprised how many people make cookies and stuff for them. Maybe they actually talk to their drivers regularly, but I would be creeped out eating homemade cookies from someone on my route if I didn't know them well. What do you do?

eta: and by delivery drivers I meant UPS and USPS, not your pizza man.

dixee.deluxe · December 2011

Ours are never the same.

Also, mailpeople (USPS) are not allowed to accept gifts of any kind. So if they accept them, they are in violation of their ethics code and subject to termination. Just an FYI!

jkfranklin · December 2011

I would go with a gift card or maybe some nice pre packaged cookies rather than home made.

katieh1017 · December 2011

I never have but I don't get a lot of stuff. DH went through a phase where he did but we never saw them. Since it's the holidays, I would say yes to a gift card. Maybe your stuff will get priority or treated a little nicer

Can't hurt. As far as making homemade stuff, it's a nice idea but I don't like eating stuff from people I don't know.

katieluke1983 · December 2011

My husband used to deliver for Lowes and got tips all the time, he even came home with a HUGE bag of tortilla chips once...I know that he always felt appreciated when someone did something whether it was $5 or some cookies....

Im rarely home when UPS drops off, and we dont see them normally anyway as it usually just goes tot he Apt office, but I would if I had one all the time!

JillyOlsen · December 2011

At my office, my shipping manager and I have gone together to get a little something for our driver. But we only do this because 1) it's always the same guy except when he's on vacation and 2) he does favors for us like sending a later pick up driver if we are not ready for his normal time or even meeting me across town one day when our office was closed but I really needed a package he had. I would not tip my guy at home because he delivers to us so rarely and typically he just leaves a box on the porch

biblionerd · December 2011

Oh, I definitely wasn't planning on making anything. Just surprised how many people did it seemed! I'm having problems finding time to start making my normal holiday stuff.

ashunt279 · December 2011

If it's always the same person then yes a giftcard would be nice.

Tambcat · December 2011

We've given our mailman a small Christmas gift before, but we usually don't. It's never occurred to me to tip the UPS man, but I never got that many packages until the last couple of months, w/ all the baby and maternity stuff!

Tambcat · December 2011

Oh, and my FIL was a mailman, and he got SO much stuff from people on his route for Christmas. He was always trying to pawn it off on us. It was funny b/c he knew which houses were the "good" houses and which were the bad, kind of like trick-or-treating.

ateal2490 · December 2011

I honestly never would have thought to......

biblionerd · December 2011

Huh, interesting. I was curious about the usps tipping and found this. Apparently you can tip with gifts less than $20, but no money/checks/etc.

Employee Tipping/Gift Receiving Policy

All postal employees, including carriers, must comply with the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch. Under these federal regulations, carriers are permitted to accept a gift worth $20 or less from a cus?tomer per occasion, such as Christmas. However, cash and cash equivalents, such as checks or gift cards that can be exchanged for cash, must never be accepted in any amount. Furthermore, no employee may accept more than $50 worth of gifts from any one customer in any one calen?dar year.

Tambcat · December 2011

Yeah, you're not supposed to give cash to mail carriers. They'll happily take it, though!

gisa886 · December 2011

If it was the same person over and over I would. Here in my teeny tiny small town it was always the same guy. I don't think my mom tipped him because we rarely had packages

bumpuser5917313 · December 2011

When we lived in CT, my dad would receive numerous Fed-Exs a week. We had this HUGE sledding hill in our back yard, and the Fed-Ex man would always look at it longingly. After weeks of taunting him, we finally got him to go down the hill. That year for Christmas, we got him his own sled, hat, and scarf that we'd leave at the back door. We'd come home and see fresh sled marks down the hill and know that we had gotten a Fed-Ex delivery.

dixee.deluxe · December 2011

MUPPETinMA:
When we lived in CT, my dad would receive numerous Fed-Exs a week. We had this HUGE sledding hill in our back yard, and the Fed-Ex man would always look at it longingly. After weeks of taunting him, we finally got him to go down the hill. That year for Christmas, we got him his own sled, hat, and scarf that we'd leave at the back door. We'd come home and see fresh sled marks down the hill and know that we had gotten a Fed-Ex delivery.

This story made my day.

biblionerd · December 2011

MUPPETinMA:
When we lived in CT, my dad would receive numerous Fed-Exs a week. We had this HUGE sledding hill in our back yard, and the Fed-Ex man would always look at it longingly. After weeks of taunting him, we finally got him to go down the hill. That year for Christmas, we got him his own sled, hat, and scarf that we'd leave at the back door. We'd come home and see fresh sled marks down the hill and know that we had gotten a Fed-Ex delivery.

That is AWESOME!

danandbethg · December 2011

dixee.deluxe:

Ours are never the same.

Also, mailpeople (USPS) are not allowed to accept gifts of any kind. So if they accept them, they are in violation of their ethics code and subject to termination. Just an FYI!

My mom is a mailcarrier, and she gets non-monetary gifts every years during the holidays. People give her cookies/candy/whatever else....her boss has never said anything.

ImThisBabysMom · December 2011

No but I don't order often enough and I am usually upstairs and they just ring the bell and leave the box so I never see them anyways.

My mom liked her UPS man, he was nice and always brought the dog up a treat. They would talk for a few minutes. But she never gave him a gift of any kind.

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