Tipping Postal Worker
I moved to Bed Stuy this year, and for the first time in my adult life I have a fantastic postal worker. She keeps stamps that I can buy from her, deals with packages, showed me how to deal with international postage by myself, and generally acts like this mobile post office with no wait….
I moved to Bed Stuy this year, and for the first time in my adult life I have a fantastic postal worker.
She keeps stamps that I can buy from her, deals with packages, showed me how to deal with international postage by myself, and generally acts like this mobile post office with no wait.
I should tip this woman at Christmastime, right?
How much? What’s the standard? I want to exceed it. Anyone?
Here is a good tip for your mail carrier—
Next time you watch my Netflix DVDs put them back in the right envelopes. Otherwise i know what’s up.
tipping a mail carrier, i have now heard everything.
The way my mailman reads numbers he’d probably think a $10 bill was a $100 or possibly a $50 and he’d think it came from another address.
Rehab, I think we have the same mail carrier!
Who knew so many mail carriers spend the day dicking around reading Brownstoner and encouraging people to tip them? Get back to work, you jagoffs!
For those who want to tip, but don’t want to sit around waiting for the trucks: I tape a card marked “mail carrier” to my mailbox in my co-op vestibule and tape one under the trashcan lid for the garbage men. This reduces the likelihood of the wrong person walking off with a gift you leave on your stoop.
I usually just put in a starbucks gift card rather than cash. Everyone likes a little overpriced coffee. I see no need to overdo with $100. I’m sure your carrier appreciates dealing with someone friendly along her route. Moreover, if you give $100 this year, how do you not give it agin next year and the next. It could get weird.
Well perhaps you’d get your paychecks if you didn’t treat you postal worker like a moron and gave them a tip.
This postal worker will REALLY reveal herself to be a jewel if she declines your tip, as she should. Tipping a mail carrier is ridiculous. What, you tip firemen, cops, city council members, too? Here’s a tip I’d like to give MY mailman: Do your fucking job, you moron, and stop bringing me other people’s mail. God only knows how many of my paychecks have gone to somebody down the block, or into the river, or into somebody’s furnace.
Wow. What a miracle. I want to add to your tip, and I don’t even live in Bed Stuy.