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?

[Togo]

Strewth Jackdaw I pay my personal cleaner double all year round. :))

[DTCwordfan]

rural here, and a small tip if you can catch them! say a fiver to a tenner (or a bottle of wine).

[-Talbot-]

I love to tip the postman and binmen.
But I do my own windows, so I'm left with no choice but tip my neighbour's window cleaner.

[EDDIE51]

Boxing day name has 2 origins , the day to give a gift of a Christmas box and the day of opening of the collection box in church.
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/why-is-the-day-after-christmas-called-boxing-day
It is also the Feast of Steven or St Stephen's day. As in the carol 'Good King Wenceslas' who looked out on the feast of Steven.

[Baldric]

We hardly ever see the same Postman twice in a week, the Binmen are a pain in the butt and never return the bins to where they got them from, so no tips.
And I don't recall anyone ever tipping me for doing my job.

[yogi-bear]

Brilliantly deduced, Talbot....

The way I see it is if you have a cleaner, a gardener, a window cleaner etc all year round, you pay them for their services and then give them a little extra in tips when they have finished, why pay them again just because it's Christmas? Bah humbug, indeed!


As CJ from Reggie Perrin used to say " I didn't get to where I am today" by giving unnecessary tips to employed people who get them all year round.

The postgirl doesn't get any of my money all year...and deserves something at Christmas....neither our Doctors Surgery, (even though not classed as tips exactly) they do deserve recognition for what they do.

This year, I will go around to our local ambulance depot just around the block, as when I needed an emergency call out in January, due to a bleeding Duodenal ulcer, they were here at the house in literally 2 minutes. I owe them a lot, as was in a bad way bringing up blood and rushed to hospital....
Also the lovely nurses and specialist doctors in the ward I stayed in the hospital will get some prezzies and cards as well. :-)