Comments on: Tipping Your Mailman For The Holidays and Christmas Is Crazy

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:49:20 +0000

The mail person who delivers mail most days to our small office wears a bluetooth all of the time and walks in while chatting with someone and walks out after, most days, only a nod to me. Nice job to be paid very well and to be able to talk with friends a lot of your workday. Almost every day we get mail not addressed to our office, and often the small businesses in the same building have to deliver the misdirected mail to other offices in the building! I wonder why!

By: drs1969

drs1969 — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:55:03 +0000

You’ll be happy to know our mail carrier gave our $15.00 back. She’s a “contract” mail carrier, not the government kind. First time we ever had tip returned.
Personally, I’m with you about the USPS going out of business, but “contract” mail carriers have to use their own cars. If she had been one of the “$25.00 an hour plus benefits” carriers, she wouldn’t have been offered anything in the first place. Turns she must already be rich!!!

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:04:32 +0000

Not tipping someone because you don’t like the company they work for is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. Would you not tip your waitress who did a good job just because you didn’t like your food or felt that the prices were too high? What an ignorant way of thinking.

I am not a big fan of the post office either but these carriers are working their butts off with little to no respect. They only time they ever hear about their service is when something went wrong. 95% of the time they get things right. People just expect perfection and they definitely show no graciousness to a job well done. What ever happened to tact?

I have no issue with you feeling the a postman is not worth a tip. I do however have a problem with your reasoning.

By: Benny

Benny — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:12:24 +0000

These are just suggested tips, which I appreciate. Thanks for the help. As for mail carriers, the work can be pretty hardcore here in Minnesota, where the high can stay below zero and the blizzards can get nasty. The mail carriers also have a lot of extra volume during the holiday season, and so have to work even harder. I personally appreciate their efforts quite a bit, and our regular carrier is very friendly, and would even give my dog treats before the USPS put the kibosh on that. And as for teachers, they are one of the most underpaid, undervalued, and yet highly educated professionals out there, so they deserve tips, but I doubt they get many.

By: zippy

zippy — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:59:12 +0000

We are not supposed to accept cash. Gifts are appreciated and shared with fellow workers when we return to the PO. As a rural carrier I do my best for my customers (most could care less about me) and I am human too (which many people forget). I cannot control some of the things the postal service does on a daily basis, like the flow of mail or the volume of mail from day to day. Last week I was able to get home by 5pm, this week it’s been 7pm. I just have to get the mail delivered they make me take out on a daily basis. I am sorry I can not get your mail to you at the same minute every day. I don’t even get to eat lunch every day. By the way, taxes don’t pay our salaries, the sale of stamps and services do. Yes, much needs to be improved, but have you checked the price of stamps in Japan?

By: parker

parker — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:30:34 +0000

Hank what’s the truth you actually can’t stand your mailman or you don’t have as much (sic) gripes about your mailman? Me thinks you’re just a pot stirrer looking for reactions.

By: CHARLIE

CHARLIE — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:37:14 +0000

1. I agree, maybe the reason your service is so bad is you, not your carrier. How many times have you received your mail, daily, and thanked them instead of telling them it is about time.
2. Your taxes DO NOT pay any part of the Postal Service and hasn’t since 1970. Obviously history is not your strong suit.
3. True, Postal employee’s are not allowed to accept any monetary gift, by regulation, but will accept a small gift like cookies or home baked items, which will be very much welcomed and is often shared back at the office with others.

By: j. j.

j. j. — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:49:41 +0000

It is inappropriate and uncessary for public school teachers to receive any gifts from the parents.

By: alice

alice — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:53:08 +0000

It IS crazy to tip a mail delivery person because a) it is again the USPS regulations to give them cash and b) because they get paid a LOT more than you think when you look at their salaries and compare them to salaries of people doing similar kind of work in the private sector. A home-baked treat would be nice for lots of people including the mail person and who can afford a lot of cash in this economy. I have worked hard as a legal secretary for many years and worked for ONE attorney who used to give me $25 or so to type a deed because I wasn’t really his secretary and he needed the deeds typed right away.

By: www.DealPI.Com

www.DealPI.Com — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:21:51 +0000

I do not tip the mailman, though I’ve never heard of anyone doing it before

. I do not even have a choice which mailman I can have deliver my mail!

At least when I go to the barber I can choose who and tip based on the service.

There should be no quality of service difference in one mailman to the other. It’s not like a waiter or other standard tip person.

Do Mailmen expect a tip?