Your thoughts on Tipping

[Puddy_Tat]

Does anyone give Christmas tips to postie, bin men, etc ?

must admit i don't - i don't often see either (i'm in a first floor flat and can't see the path to the door / where the bins get put) so wouldn't know if it was the regular ones / holiday relief or what.

think when i was a kitten in 1970s SE London suburbia that the postman, bin men, paper-boy would knock on the door 'to wish you a merry christmas' with the expectation of getting something. the milk-man would call on a friday anyway to settle up for the week.

(gender specific terms of the era used intentionally)

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I had a paper round.
For which I earned 11 quid a week.
The Christmas box of giving cards out to all houses on my round would earn me about an extra 100 quid so was well worth putting the effort in.
My dad gave me advice though, he said the big houses would give you less. Because that’s how they get big houses. I have not found this to be untrue yet.