Christmas Tips

[Barmaid]

Do you tip or provide gifts at Christmas for various services?

eg, now I live in rural utopia (ie the back end of beyond) I've got to know my regular postman really well. We always have a chat, and he is very good because he hides deliveries in our secret place when he knows I am not around. In the city I never had the same postman twice.

My bin men are quite good and if I've left the gates open but forgotten to put the bins out they send the young lad in to collect them (we did speak about this about 6 months ago). So they are quite good too.

I remember years ago, my mum and dad always having cards ready with a note in for the postman, milkman, dust men etc with a "Christmas box"?

Do you leave a Christmas box for those who provide regular good service? Who do you tip?

[mccfluff]

no-one

[albaqwerty]

I know ab'ers who are anti-tipping for people who are doing their job, but I like my postie, he's nice and is out in all weathers doing his job.

Have gone off my dust men over the past few months, seems to be a different crew.

[hereIam]

Only my window cleaner, but I remember many years ago my Dad tipping the bin men!

[ChillDoubt]

No, I don't. I'm lucky if I get praise, let alone a tip, bit then I do work in the NHS.

[EDDIE51]

The traditional day to give such presents is Boxing day. The name derives from 'Christmas Box ' . A trades person only had Christmas day off , Boxing day was a normal working day, but it was when they were given their Christmas Box containing money!

[Voltage]

nope nobody

[ummmm]

No, they change daily/weekly.

[ubasses]

Live in a small village and give the postlady a bottle of wine, she takes any parcels home with her and pops back when she finished work. Do not have a milkman and the bin men always leave the empty bin in the middle of the driveway so the do not get anything.

[Jackdaw33]

I always thought that Boxing Day was so-called because that was when the poor boxes in churches were opened for distribution.

[sapelesam]

We have two paper delivery kids who share the round, one gets driven in a Discovery when it's raining, Oh how life has changed, they both drop off christmas cards with their names, enterprising or what. We tip them both, £5 each. Not a lot, but I would give a tenner to one.

[emmie]

i don't because the bin men are council run, and we don't see them as the bins are in the basement area of the block, and the postie is never the same one, there are at least 5/6 that do our deliveries.

[Islay]

A fiver to the postman and a 4 pack for the scaffies

[hereIam]

What's a scaffie ?

[Islay]

Dustbin men

[sapelesam]

You mean Bin Yackers.

[hereIam]

Thanks, never heard that before.

[hereIam]

Or that !

[EcclesCake]

Cleaner and gardener are the only people I give to at Christmas.

[Islay]

That’s what we call them in cruden bay

[sapelesam]

My dad used to call them Garbologists.