Well i was planning on giving the postman a tip this year as hes been very good to me hehe.
I dont even know if weve had the same postman all year or even what he looks like, he only been half an hour ago and i couldnt even tell u what he looks like im too busy looking at the goods hes carrying and what parcels ive got dont think ive ever looked him in the eye!
Any way....how much do you give them? £5? £10? Or a gift voucher or chocs??

Thats really nice of you hun, I think he'd appreciate anything, I have never tipped ours and its usually the same guy, its never crossed my mind before. I wonder how many ppl do tip posties?

we live opposite a postie and although they take the tip they have to share it all out with the others at their depot hun so im not going to give him anything xx

well with how many pacakges must come to your house everyday maybe about £50 =op
lol i would buy him some choccies and tell him to eat em on the way round lol!

we have a diff postie everyday!
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I think £5 is fine.

We have the same one all the time and he's very nice but he's a shite postie and always posts the wrong letters in my door so then I have to go out and do his bloody job fir him - so ours ain't getting a tip!

Well my hubby's a postie Terri and he gets between £2 - £20 ( ) TBH he appreciates everything he gets. There's no set amount it's entirely up to you and I think it's lovely that you want to

Oh he doesn't share his tips with anyone!!

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I've never done it before but was seriously thinking about it this year. I have done practically all my christmas shopping online this year and we must have had at least 4-5 parcel delivered each week for the last few months (some huge) and they have all had such a tough time recently with the weather and our guys have really worked hard from what I've seen.

However we have about 5 or 6 different ones that come here so I don't know what to do - just tip one (the one that comes xmas eve)? buy a big tin of chocs and drop off at delivery office?

Jo/Susan - what would Adam/Simon think?

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Umm thats a tough one Debs, thats what im thinking though im not sure if we have a diff postie all the time or the same one Im just going to write a card and stick a tenner in i think. Ill give it to who ever comes on thursday

Oooh I have never even thought about that!!!

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Yeah thats a thoughie Debs, Simon has been doing his round for a good 8 years and is rarely off (only for holidays) so his 'customers' know him really well and because he literallty runs around they see how hard he works. Erm I think the box of chocs idea is brilliant but I think I would hand it to whoever comes on xmas eve as if its a big delivery office they wouldnt go very far. Oh and Simon is always chuffed with chocs - he got a bottle of wine the other day but neither of us drink (I dont even when not pregnant) so he's going to give it to someone else. xxx

we have had about 4 or 5 diff posties in the last 3 months. i never thought bout tipping him ?! i didnt know people did lol¬! i can see wy if its th same one for a long time i guess

We didn't tip the postie because we never see the same one twice but we tipped our window cleaner with £5 and a bottle of wine

debs, a box of chocs sounds fine, and yeah i would give it to your xmas eve postie. Adam would defo appreciate chocs!

Adam got his first tip the other day of £3 he was over the moon, TBH he just likes being appreciated lol, he came back the other day saying that he had been told by a cumstomer he was doing a fab job, it made his day

Aww bless him Jo - well you can tell him from me (and Simon, Susan) that he is doing a brilliant job. The weather is so god damn awful (particularly near you Jo) and temperatures are awfully low - where would christmas be without the posties? We all like to have a little moan about the royal mail when a parcel is late or lost but lets face it they do an amazing job, it still amazes me that you can post a letter 1st class at the top of Scotland and it will arrive the next day in Cornwall (under normal circumstances). They do a great job and with the huge backlog at the moment they seem to be working their socks off to clear it in time for Christmas - you already told me Adam went in to help during his holidays so for Adam and Simon and all the other posties out there up to their knees in snow and freezing their wotsits off to get me my cheap superdrug products in time for Christmas!

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Here here Debs

im being a scrooge and not tipping mine ,,,, well if i see the guy thats good then yeah i will but we usually get diff ones plus i get my neighbours mail and my neighbour on other side gets mine x

Aw bless you Debs, that really was lovely!!! I'll tell Simon later - he will love it.

They do work really hard and it makes them feel great when they feel appreciated - this saturday just gone Simon was at work for 4am he got home at 11:30 for some lunch then went back out at 1:30 to do some parcel deliveries and got home at 5, I dont know how he does it!!!!

Oh and he got another 2 bottles of wine today

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aww debs thats lovely and true ! x

just wish mine would get right houses

michelle&danielle wrote:

aww debs thats lovely and true ! x

just wish mine would get right houses

That would help!! xx

I've never really tipped the postman before, but this year I was thinking the same. For the past 6mth now we've had a new one and although he comes across a right missery sometimes, he's done good trudging through the snow recently and getting lots of parcels to my door, especially all Olivers party goods which arrived bang-on time even though we had a foot of snow out there

I wanted to get him some choccies, but then I was worried that it'd be extra weight he has to carry till he finishes
Then I have the dilemma that he doesn't actually post to my door, my post box is on my 7ft gates so don't even know when he's been

If we still had the guy that used to be regular I wouldnt have done, but we never get the same person now, so no point

Ive not thougth about it either but we do have the same postman and he helped me with the door and things when callum was a baby and attached to me so i think i will xx