Tipping the postman at xmas

Supraman · 22-12-2012 01:57AM

Father Damo wrote: »

Has the postal service gotten so broke the drivers have to use their own cars now?

vans are only distributed to posties on certain routes . High volume business mail customers and rural routes normally get them . Your average urban postie delivering within a reasonable distance of the delivery unit they work from have option of a bicycle or their own transport . No , fuel isn't subsidised by the company if anyone is wondering .

opti0nal · 22-12-2012 09:13AM

Where To wrote: »

Tips are welcome but not expected.:)

A tip is a way of acknowledging the person, rather than the 'service provider'. It's also a way of thanks if you think the person has done more than the minimum required.

padma · 22-12-2012 10:00AM

Postman gets a fiver once a year, pizzaman gets two euro, figure the pizza guy delivers in his own car and the cost of a taxi from the pizza shop would be more than the pizza bought is worth. Both good services

enda1 · 22-12-2012 10:24AM

How are you all around to see these people during the day anyway? Surely most people never encounter these service people?

m'lady · 22-12-2012 10:31AM

Duberlin Chick wrote: »

Ah sure it depends on the postman I suppose.

My postman ignores me flat out everyday I see him. I refuse to stop saying hello to his face cause I've started to get a kick out of it. How someone's ignores a person greeting them face to face is beyond me.

He'll be thirsty this crimbo that's for sure!

My post woman is the exact same, she's one rude biatch! Will knock on door if I've to sign for a delivery and shove the docket in my face without saying a thing. She's a shrivelled up oul cow.. Now I know why- nobody would tip her with a bottle of whiskey!

Supraman · 22-12-2012 01:33PM

m'lady wrote: »

My post woman is the exact same, she's one rude biatch! Will knock on door if I've to sign for a delivery and shove the docket in my face without saying a thing. She's a shrivelled up oul cow.. Now I know why- nobody would tip her with a bottle of whiskey!

Must be a long time since you've seen your postwoman , items that require a signature are done with a scanner the last 12 months . A lot of offices have been redesigned in that time and there would have been an awful lot of changes as regards personnel on routes . She may not be there anymore.

Biggins · 22-12-2012 01:37PM

We have various postmen in any one week so we don't tip.

barone · 22-12-2012 02:53PM

i really wish those who say the postie just delivers sorry we missed you notes etc would complain to their local post office or mail centre.. doing it here wont achieve anything,least of all stop it from happening..

so far in the last ten days of delivery ive received 237 items incorrectly addressed which ive delivered to proper address , 95 % were xmas cards.

yes i counted,

new rules in an post state that if letter is not known at where it is addressed ,or not known by end of day receiving it, it gets returned to sender, and as in the case of nearly all xmas cards where there is no return address , shredded.

its not our job to decipher post, just deliver where addressed .

once again, merry xmas, supraman fellow postie especially you

Supraman · 22-12-2012 03:19PM

Many happy returns barone , whatever shall we do with the millions we've acquired on our postal runs at christmas ?

mathepac · 22-12-2012 04:12PM

Supraman wrote: »

... whatever shall we do with the millions we've acquired on our postal runs at christmas ?

Move them off-shore, declare them for tax, put them in a kitty for all to share (as in the private sector), give them to charity, top up my pension ....

barone · 22-12-2012 05:36PM

Supraman wrote: »

Many happy returns barone , whatever shall we do with the millions we've acquired on our postal runs at christmas ?

investing mine in eirc.. , stamps.:)

B.A._Baracus · 22-12-2012 06:14PM

I wouldn't be tipping the postman :P
Not because I am some hungary/tight git ... just because I dont see why you should tip them.

I mean its their job. They get paid. By the same logic how come we don't tip the person who takes our order and gives us our food in McDonalds, Burger King etc?

Odysseus · 22-12-2012 06:36PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

I wouldn't be tipping the postman :P
Not because I am some hungary/tight git ... just because I dont see why you should tip them.

I mean its their job. They get paid. By the same logic how come we don't tip the person who takes our order and gives us our food in McDonalds, Burger King etc?

Welcome back:)

B.A._Baracus · 22-12-2012 06:41PM

Odysseus wrote: »

Welcome back:)

Do I sense a 'rub' in that post

Where To · 22-12-2012 06:45PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

I wouldn't be tipping the postman :P
Not because I am some hungary/tight git ... just because I dont see why you should tip them.

I mean its their job. They get paid. By the same logic how come we don't tip the person who takes our order and gives us our food in McDonalds, Burger King etc?

They're not allowed to accept tips, or Christmas kisses either as I once discovered to my cost.:o

Lenin Skynard · 22-12-2012 06:46PM

enda1 wrote: »

How are you all around to see these people during the day anyway? Surely most people never encounter these service people?

Funnily enough, I just happen to live in the house where the postman delivers to.

Jogathon · 22-12-2012 07:03PM

The folks got a Christmas card delivered today. Address was as follows...
Mum's name,
Name of road,
Co. Cork.

No house name, no townland, no village.... Well done, An Post!!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 22-12-2012 07:04PM

I used to tip the old Corpo' binmen, they were good craic all year round and took anything.. Now I've a bunch of ignorant east Euro bastards who won't even take a bin if its not turned in the correct direction ~ assholes, I hate them.

My postman on the other hand is a proper Dub, always cheerful and a bit of craic. Even my dogs love him, he gets a card with a score and a bottle & a proper bleed'n handshake too.

Supraman · 22-12-2012 07:31PM

funny with all this talk of an post , I got a christmas card today addressed correctly with the wrong name on it , the name on it never lived here either as previous owner was first owner here . the letter has been sent back but with no return address on outside and likely none on inside it's most probably destined for a shredder with someone going to complain an post lost or stole their letter lol.

daenerysstormborn3 · 22-12-2012 07:38PM

We tip our postman because he's very good to us. He leaves parcels in our pumphouse if we're not home and he's good with our dogs, one of whom is huge. We also tip the Tesco delivery man because he always insists on doing the heavy lifting and he's good with our dogs.

22-12-2012 07:48PM

I'd tip somebody who goes beyond what he is strictly paid to do, especially if its something that he wouldn't get any thanks from his employer... for example a delivery man who gives you a hand to get something upstairs, or a postie who knows your arrangements and gets stuff to you instead of making you visit the post office to collect.
I hate tipping those who think its their entitlement such as taxi drivers and even more so those who actually ask for tips, such as binmen.

NegativeCreep · 22-12-2012 08:34PM

I've never seen the postman so I couldn't tip him if I wanted to.
I don't think I would anyway. I'm sure postmen get a christmas bonus anyway.

Supraman · 22-12-2012 09:40PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I've never seen the postman so I couldn't tip him if I wanted to.
I don't think I would anyway. I'm sure postmen get a christmas bonus anyway.

from the company ? not even a stamp would ya get off them lol . from the public , yes , some people are exceptionally generous .

selous · 22-12-2012 09:49PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I've never seen the postman so I couldn't tip him if I wanted to.
I don't think I would anyway. I'm sure postmen get a christmas bonus anyway.

Postmen dont get christmas bonus, they get O.T, which they have to work to get it, so not really a "bonus".
Many of what has been talked about there leaving packets in bins, hedges, pumphouse's, as we call being nice, can actually get the postman fired or suspended, believe it or not, If your gat is locked because postie got there before you got up, once upon a time it was brought out next day, now it has to be returned to sender that day, not our fault, company orders, a business is shut, all mail to be returned daily, if we're asked to leave it next door, (we can, being nice) but you need a redirection companys orders, But disiplinary action can happen if found out that we did the favour. It seems the individual Postman is in charge of customer relations, NOT the company.

Witchie · 23-12-2012 12:28PM

I tipped my postman for the first time yesterday because he has been great lately. If I'm not home he has left my packages at a neighbours, if he sees me on the road he will stop and give me my post. He is an all round nice guys too.

23-12-2012 12:32PM

eth2 wrote: »

I don't tip them anymore after one of them tried to sue me when he landed in the gravel.

Did he fall or was he pushed?????

mrsdewinter · 23-12-2012 01:34PM

No, I won't tip my postman. I live in an apartment block and the service is appalling. In June 2010, I received a Christmas card posted the previous December. They can go and whistle for a tip from me...

Precious flower · 23-12-2012 02:57PM

We do it (or at least we did last year and before, got a new postman this year) because we knew the postman to see as he'd been delivering post to our estate for ages, so my mum thought it was a nice gesture just to wish him a nice Christmas. You don't have to do it, but I think it's nice.:)

Colonel Sanders · 23-12-2012 03:32PM

I've been at my current address 4 years. In that time I've not received a minimum of 20 items of post I know I should have received (and that's just the stuff I know about). I've repeatedly come home to see letters thrown in the porch as the postman couldn't be bothered putting them through the actual letter box (including letters stamped "Private & Confidential). Parcels left on the step, sorry we missed you noticed where they didn't even bother to try deliver it

So no, I won't be tipping my post man

TwoShedsJackson · 23-12-2012 03:44PM

Did you try complaining to An Post?

Tipping the postman at xmas

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