Who do you tip at christmas?

[atrollope]

The Binmen.the Papergirl/boy,Postie..
I usually catch Postie..with the corny line."I think you"ve dropped one"..and give him a little card,containing a tenner..after all,hes a lovely fella,and I depend on the great service he provides...he never moans when I am slow to come to the door to sign for stuff..Oh,and a tenner slipped in the tin at the Paper shop.

[NOX]

Sounds about right to me, although I read somewhere this year that if you tip the postman he's in danger of it being considered a ' bribe'- seriously:(

[China Doll]

None of them.

[ummmm]

No one...

Different postie here daily. Bin men we might see for 1 minute once a week. My son is the paper boy. I spend enough money in the paper shop to not feel I have to tip them :-)

[albaqwerty]

I've heard that too Nox, about the postie I mean.

I used to tip the bin men and the postie when I had the financial means to do so.

[rockyracoon]

We used to top the postie but ours changes frequently and strangely enough they all seem to suffer from the same inability to read an address correctly. Don't have a milkie any more so no tip there, don't know if other half tips the binmen or not, so to sum up, I don't tip anyone. Oh, I'm mean!

[dustypuss]

I worked as a milk man to help my dad at xmas when I was young and each year we would clear about £200 in tips that was thirty years ago . The government, in their wisdom, decided to tax tips by estimating how much we would get.
Because everybody knew that the government was going to get our hard earned money they stopped tipping us. That last year that I worked at xmas I think I got about £15.

[notasyoungasiwas]

I only tip my window cleaner, but nowhere near as much as £10.

[B00]

No one.

[mccfluff]

bar staff at the local that's about it

[Philtaz]

I tip everyone at this time of year.

My tip: Don't eat yellow snow.

[Frank97]

We don't have a milkman or paperboy the postie seems to change regularly and which one of the binmen am I supposed to tip, after all there is at least three truck loads of them these days. So in the interest of fairness no one gets anything.

[atrollope]

Good Tip Philtaz..lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVvgo1wxh4

[rosyposy]

I think I read that the tip had to be over £30 NOX, to be considered a bribe - (but bribe to do what exactly?)

[rowanwitch]

The cleaner and caretaker who keep the flats so nice maybe
I need to check with some of the other residents to see what the routine is as there may be a collection each year

[bobbie22]

I tip the window cleaner and the man who cuts my grass for me. No one else though. As for the dustman, We have two collections for waste and recycling, and theres a different crew every week. The postman is a different one every week, so not him either. Its a shame really, years ago, you had the same staff all the time, and then I had no problems tipping.

[Prudie]

Tenner to the postman and same to the binmen. Nothing for the Recycling men as they can be a grumpy lot. No-one else.

[Philtaz]

Unless it's this.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00VW47-wwYg

[slinky.kate]

postman,paperboy.

[atrollope]

Miller Lite..haha..lol...Coloured water more like ;-)