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12-13-2003, 09:57 AM
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Question during the festive season
How many people here tip their postal worker?
I usually leave an envelope and a bottle of Johnny Walker.
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12-13-2003, 10:20 AM
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Re: Question during the festive season
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Originally posted by moe.ron
How many people here tip their postal worker?
I usually leave an envelope and a bottle of Johnny Walker.
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Don't even see my postal worker. We have a mailbox..
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12-13-2003, 11:14 AM
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I used to in PHX, but then I knew him. Right before we moved he ordered so much stuff online for our new house that he had to come to the door. Now here in GA I barely see who is driving the mail truck, when I do it is some one different every time.
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12-13-2003, 11:17 AM
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I live in an apartment so our mailboxes are really small...maybe I'll leave him something this year. When I lived at home my mom usually left our postal worker a bottle of booze.
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12-14-2003, 08:09 PM
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We leave him some cash.
We almost never see him because we have a mailbox... but he's done things for us like hold the mail for us if we forget to file a mail-hold card.
Postal workers are not supposed to accept tips, I believe... but somehow we always see a printed thank-you card from the USPS the day after Boxing Day, signed by our postman... 
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12-14-2003, 09:02 PM
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I have never tipped my mailman. Am I bad for that?
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12-14-2003, 09:23 PM
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I know my mom used to give cookies, gifts, etc. when I was younger. I really don't know if she still does.
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12-14-2003, 09:29 PM
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Never see him/her.
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12-14-2003, 09:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
I have never tipped my mailman. Am I bad for that?
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That's because you live in NYC and any and all disposable income must go to your building super if you want heat!
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12-14-2003, 11:17 PM
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I think my mailman at my apt. deserves a swift kick in the face. He/she screws up our mail SO OFTEN that it's ridiculous. At least once a week I have to stop on every floor on the way up to deposit mail that went to the wrong box.
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12-14-2003, 11:25 PM
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We haven't tipped our mail lady lately, to my knowledge. That may be because she ran over our mailbox once, and then bent the door another time. 
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12-14-2003, 11:33 PM
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I don't know if my parents do, but my grandparents give the mail carrier and paperboy a phatty tip.  What can I say? We live in a small town...
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12-15-2003, 12:35 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by KillarneyRose
That's because you live in NYC and any and all disposable income must go to your building super if you want heat!
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lol That's funny.
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12-15-2003, 04:04 PM
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My family would give a Holiday greeting card with some money inside.
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12-15-2003, 04:09 PM
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We do. Our postal lady's been coming by our house for the past 7 years. We love Joanna.
In Hawaii it's also customary to leave something for our trash guys on Christmas Day. Customary=a case of beer. It's against the law for them to carry alcohol in City & County garbage trucks, but these guys are smart. They have someone following them in a separate car that takes all the beer we leave out for them.
It's the least we could do for the awesome guys that visit us twice a week.
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