Current Events > Do you give a holiday tip to your mail courier/sanitation employees?

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I was considering giving a holiday tip this year to my mail courier, but then this bullshit happened today with a package I really needed by today:
https://i.imgur.com/zMzoIWs.png

So nope; fuck 'em.

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did you shovel your walk?

rodu_jr posted...

did you shovel your walk?

It hasn't snowed here yet.

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IdiotMachine posted...

It hasn't snowed here yet.

then fuck 'em

I'm a mail carrier, I got my first gift today. $20 Olive Garden gift card.

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DespondentDeity posted...

I'm a mail carrier, I got my first gift today. $20 Olive Garden gift card.

Couple questions:
1) How do people leave gifts for you (i.e., how do you know that that gift was meant for you)?
2) Sometimes, the regular mail carrier assigned to a route is reassigned (or someone else is assigned); how do you ensure that it's your regular mail carrier that gets the gift and not someone else?

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IdiotMachine posted...

I was considering giving a holiday tip this year to my mail courier, but then this bullshit happened today with a package I really needed by today:
https://i.imgur.com/zMzoIWs.png

So nope; fuck 'em.

Couldn't pull over and walk to door.

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Unless package is fucking 100 pounds or so.

Contact owner and ask for assistance, they will gladly help since it's theirs after all.


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Is there any possible reason they might have not been able to get to your door?

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IdiotMachine posted...

Couple questions:
1) How do people leave gifts for you (i.e., how do you know that that gift was meant for you)?
2) Sometimes, the regular mail carrier assigned to a route is reassigned (or someone else is assigned); how do you ensure that it's your regular mail carrier that gets the gift and not someone else?

Some people will stop by while we're delivering with their gifts, others will leave them in their mailbox with a note. I work on a rural contract so it's only ever the three of us who do our 2 routes and it's really noticeable when the customer puts something in the box. One we see really often is those chocolates that are called "Merci", people leave us home baked goods sometimes too and I get a little sketched out by that but my coworkers love it, gift cards are kinda rare so that's always a big score, but even a thank you note feels really good to get.

For the second question, every office is different. In ours the carrier subs are good about making sure the regular carriers get the gifts, they know they weren't the one who earned it and if they get found out that's something that tanks one's rep and can even cost someone getting moved to permanent. If you want to make sure it gets to your regular carrier you could go in and leave the gift with the carrier supervisor tho.

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MI4 REAL posted...

Unless package is fucking 100 pounds or so.

Nope. It was DayQuil/NyQuil, so less than a couple pounds.

glitteringfairy posted...

Is there any possible reason they might have not been able to get to your door?

Nope. The mail courier could have literally put it in the mailbox. I also didn't get any mail today. They were just running late and used that as an excuse to skip the street/neighborhood.

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Maybe if mailmen weren't all incompetent jackasses I'd be inclined to tip (Had a lazy mother fucker actually jam a box into the mailbox instead of walk it to the door. Spent a good few minutes just trying to yank it out). Sanitation though eh I'd tip them if it was a thing. They do what others won't