As the child of a mail carrier, I have to say that I never *saw* him with extra money around the holiday time.

What I did see were tons and tons and tons of cookies and small gifts of food and drink. He does a good job and it was always so cool to see how the people on his route appreciated him.

Letter carriers (if they're doing their job properly; I know a lot don't) do a lot of work for us. Any acknowledgement at the holidays helps lift their spirits out from under the barrage of Special Holiday Catalogues. :)

My parents always tip the mail carrier and whoever delivers the milk...

I read in the paper that you aren't supposed to tip postal workers in money- I'm not really sure why, though.

We don't tip our postal worker. We hardly ever see them and it's always a different person.

We tip our newspaper girl, even though she doesn't deliver our paper. She just comes to collect for them.

My family does. We tip everyone during the festive season. I remember my mom telling me that the sanitation workers (both the regular trash and recycling) were so awed that she would think of giving gifts for them.

This is a little off topic but the thread reminded me of a time back at school when my friends yelled at me for not tipping the gas station attendent. That was the first time I had heard of anyone tipping gas station attendents. So my question is have you ever tipped your gas station pumper?