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I certainly don't. My window cleaner goes to Australia for 4 weeks every year and my binmen are bloody rubbish.
No, never have. I don't really believe in tipping unless at a restaurant where the service has been good.
You pay someone to clean your windows, but find it hard to tip them because of the holiday they book? 😯
I try to leave a few tins out for the bin man if I remember.
Yes, Today i gave 4 cans of Strongbow to our Postie,
He always arrives with mail despite the Square having never been snow ploughed or gritted for 4 weeks and alot of roof snow heaped frozen on pavements. while cycling myself nieghbours have struggled to get in and out with cars but most days he arrives in his wee van (even if it is with bills)
Always a smile and good banter from him and never a moan about the conditions. And folk moan about about RM service during this cold snap.... Top Bloke just doing his job so rewarded. 😮
His van was loaded with drink in the back so alot of other folk appreciate his efforts. Maybe its just a Scottish thing but most folk i know give something to delivery services around here during the festive period 😮
If I see them I do. But half the time I'm not there when the postie/binmen come round.
postie and milkie get a £20 each
i dont tip anyone who is doing the job they are paid to do, i dont understand why we tip some jobs but not others.
Desert Orchid - 3:30 - Newmarket
Nope.
I would tip for a service if it was truly exceptional, above and beyond the expected. But to tip for a service thats paid for and expected dosent make sence to me. It provides reward for just doing a job normally, thats a disinsentive to do it better.
Bah humbug.
I alwways give the postie £10 in a Christmas card. He's a really great fella who always have the time for a chat.
No matter what the weather, he drops ths post off and he hasn't missed a day this year.
dustmen in leeds are a load of lazy ****s
and window cleaner is a jehovas(sp?)..............so no i dont.
Out of all the services you mention - only the postman.
He's friendly, helpful (goes out of his way) and a really nice bloke - he'll get a tenner. Gave him some beer a few weeks ago when he made the first delivery for a few days due to the heavy snow.
The binmen and recycling collectors will not get a thing as they are the opposite of the postie.
A tenner in a card for the postie and the milkmen - posties a top bloke and though I've never met the milkman (I'm mostly asleep at 4am!) he's not missed a delivery despite the weather. They've earned it.
[i]dustmen in leeds are a load of lazy ****s[/i]
Too right, when we lived in Garforth they were bloody crap! If you had 1/2 a bin bag that wasn't in the bin they'd leave it.
Harrogate council chaps are miles more better.
Infidel, Im amazed, you just gave a tenner to a bloke you never met who you pay to deliver your milk - now you have given him more money. He has to deliver the milk otherwise he has no money since he hasnt sold any.
You have never met me, can I have a tenner ? Look on the bright side, you dont pay me normally anyway so its even cheaper.
Have you started the Xmas drinking already ?
Nobody tips me and I'm doing a job ?
Bin men got £20 per team, trouble is there are three lots of them, normal, bottles/tins etc & the big green bin 🙁 But they did make the ungritted road this week when I thought I was going to have to cope with no pick up & a very delayed next collection due to the bank holidays, that would of been very unpleasant.
The postie may get a tenner if I see her, trouble is they don't come until way after I leave for work.
The bin men at work get £50, its not worth arguing with them & they do manage to avoid hitting any cars in a very tight space, so worth it for that alone.
Postie at work will get £40, every day he brings the mail into the office rather than pushing it through the door, top man.
The tyre fitters we use at work get £100, but then there are about ten of them.
Gave the postie £20 as I run a business from home and buy a lot of things online - so we keep him busy.
Too many different binmen now to know who I should tip. Feel a bit bad about that, but not really bad.
Postie I would tip but we tend to get different ones each week.
Bin-men on the other hand I would not tip out of principal and here's why; got home today at 1pm and realized it was bin day so duly put it out, 10 mins later saw their Acorn truck and thought that was lucky! Looking out the kitchen window I thought I'll watch them empty it and then retrieve it from the end of the drive as it is always put in front of the car. Well they completely ignored it and when I confronted them the stupid idiot said 'you didn't put it out', I informed him that it was there when they passed and he replied that he would do it. Bloody good thing too as I would have reported them. Furthermore they get paid by our council tax so a tip on top for shoddy service - I think not!!
Actually Trimix I pay the dairy for my milk and they employ him to deliver it. He has done a great job and we are thanking him for it. I don't think it's in any way a bad thing to thank him, it's my money and I'll spend it as I like.
I always tip the bin men after doing a summer on the bins(no wheelies here; bags, as many as you want to put out weekly). its a hard(10hr shift running most of the time carrying every bag, some a long way) crap job that pays little. it felt great when people gave you a cuppa or some cake instead (i kid you not) of asking you to get out of their wisteria drive coz the truck smells or being sprayed in bin juice from the hopper, coming home stinking of cat piss thats on every bag. poor fellas all they had to look forward to were the tips at xmas.
Nope as ours are pretty terrible but if they were consistently good I'd give them a bottle of something nice. They don't make binmen like they used to.
our bin men are hardworking. we tip them, cos it's a job i'd not want to do for twice what they get paid.
overheard in waitrose today: " no jemima i think the binmen would rather have lager than sweets..." 😀
Always tip our binmen at Christmas.
As a result all our Christmas rubbish gets taken, which is usually the wheelie bin plus about 5 black bags - as a contrast, the miserable sod across the road gets his bin taken and the rest is left on the pavement.
I even had 5 sacks of rubble stacked next to the house a few weeks ago, with no intention of leaving them for the binmen - surprisingly I came home on the Friday and they'd gone.
I've had 2 bottles of wine and around £12 in tips (although over payment by cheque ) from my window cleaning round. Tight wads here in Harrogate.
The bin men get over a grand each and have done for years.
No law says you have to tip anyone. Its just being cheap not to.
Will tip postie as he's a good lad. Binmen deserve something but I never see them.
Nil point to the lad who rang the bell to deliver the free paper that I don't want this week - cheeky monkey.
I tip for good service, not for rubber bands littering the pathway, cards put through the door when I'm in, littering the street with rubbish or not cleaning the back bedroom window because its to hard to reach boohoo. When someone makes a propper ****ing effort to do the job they are paid to do they might get a smile rather than a glare, go the exta mile after that and I might tip
Lazy ****ers
Plague gets a good tip as he sorts out all our parcels etc and saves us a fortune in driving to the sorting office. Bunnies get most as I am lucky if they actually turn up when they should ( although that judgement is somewhat clouded by the last few weeks of poor weather)
Seems like a lot of people have a poor experience of things like postmen / binmen. But they are paid a shite wage so I dont find it surprising that we get a shite service. Not that Im saying pay them more and it will get better, but perhaps if we make the job one worth doing so you can feel proud of doing a good job. Then things may imporve.
Its unlikely though, the job gets awarded to the lowest bidder.
we give all the delivery drivers a wee present. well not actual wee but 4 cans of 1664 so not far off 😀
It's amazing what an annual bribe earns you in 'helpfulness'.
I thought bin men were on £30k + or is that urban myth?
Nothing for the bin men. I don't know if it's regulations or something but as soon as there's 5 mill of snow on the ground they won't come round our estate.
no its there job choice.
Here in Amber valley area I believe they (binmen) were told that accepting tips was tantamount to accepting bribes and would result in them getting the sack!!
hey ton, how come we have .....
made me more understanding to other people views..............
on one thread and ...
and window cleaner is a jehovas(sp?)..............so no i dont.
on this thread 🙂
Bin men haven't been seen in weeks but I wouldn't have thought to tip them anyway. My neighbours tipped me a wee bottle for taking all the bins to the tip in the trailer though, so the bin man that is me got something.
I've never known anyone to tip bin men and posties actually. Maybe we weren't posh enough. I seem to remember the coal man got a slice of Christmas cake.
Our postie got a rather tasty bottle of port as he goes above and beyond, and he likes port.
Bin men and the recycling folk got nothing as they are nowt special and can't bring themselves to even return a friendly shout of 'morning!'
Window cleaner nowt as he's a bit lazy.v
Seriously, they'd have to be pretty damned amazing for me to tip them. I'm pretty sure most people I meet do their job well, regardless of how much pay they get for it, and since I rarely see anything I'd consider worth noting (or maybe anything I'd not do "as standard" if I were doing the job) I don't see the need.
I did recently not want change from a shop owner who, without being asked, arranged to meet me to hand an item to me in a city 10 miles from his shop, at 7pm, while also being the cheapest person around with any stock. And I'll be back too, because he seemed like a genuinely nice guy and REALLY helpful.
But no, my postie walks all over my garden and leaves parcels on the front step without a note, leaves the gates open and comes at ~9:30. The binmen do their job perfectly well, I have no complaints but likewise I don't see why I would pay them more.
I wouldn't pay someone to clean my windows if I was a millionaire, I don't think!
Maybe next time I'm in Asda I should tip the cashier for smiling a bit more today, or having the bags waiting open for me to pack 🙄
Bin men are useless, leave the wheely bin halfway down the road or blocking the pavement. Always did tip the postie, had a new one or several the past six months and one bloke in particular is a miserable old git, doesn't even reply if wished good morning
So no, not this year
Slightly OT - Do bin lorry drivers get drafted into driving gritters.
If so - I could kind of excuse the lack of bin collections, not so mush the lack of grit though.[list]
No tips for binmen here in Leeds, people may have a short memory they were striking you know and caused a lot of inconvenience. Post doesnt arrive till after lunchtime so nothing again. These are excuses only even without the strike and an earlier delivery I would not tip. I don't remember seeing plus tips in the job description for either.