Do you give Christmas presents to your maintenance people ?

[Mikey]

Living in an apartment I usually give the custodians Duncan Donuts gift cards.

Back when I lived in a house we'd tip everyone on Christmas from the garbage men to our snow plower.

How about you ?

[EmergencyIan]

In our building, we only have a super. So, we give him money every Christmas.

- Ian

[Nostalgiabuff]

I own, so I only tip the newspaper delivery person and our mail carrier. I have never tipped the garbage men because that industry is so impersonal, they use a machine to lift the cans and so there is only a driver. I don't mean to downplay the service but there is just no person to person connection there like there is with the mail and paper carrier

[Earth 2 Chris]

We give a Christmas "tip" to the mailman and to the garbage man. He drives AND picks up all the trash and throws it in, so he definitely earns his money.

Chris

[Rallygirl]

Honestly? My cousin drives for the trash company (but not our route) and I come from a postal family, so I have a good idea how much both my garbage man and my mail carrier make a year. Since it is waaaayyyy more than we will ever make, I don't feel the need to tip them. Does that make me horrible?

[HardyGirl]

When I used to have a regular mail carrier, I used to give him a Starbucks card. I haven't had a regular mail carrier in almost 8 years. But that's it.

[cjefferys]

We don't get a newspaper delivered, I never even see the garbage men, and our mail gets delivered to a community mailbox at the end of our block, so I'm in the clear! We do give Tim Horton's gift cards to the kids' school bus driver and teachers though.

[TrekStar]

I guess it's the choice of the person, if your happy with your service then a gift card of some sort
is fine, sometimes a $20 dollar gas card is cool too, I tip my mail carrier since they deal with a lot
of aggravation from the upper management and are even timed on how fast they deliver, plus they
deal with the weather conditions, I hear the post office is not such a great place to work, when I need
to go there to send out a package, I don't see many employees smiling, yikes, if anyone deserves a X-Mas
tip it's definitely the mail carrier.

[megomania]

Honestly? My cousin drives for the trash company (but not our route) and I come from a postal family, so I have a good idea how much both my garbage man and my mail carrier make a year. Since it is waaaayyyy more than we will ever make, I don't feel the need to tip them. Does that make me horrible?

I agree.

We take care of the house cleaner, our hair cutter, and our dry cleaner. They are self employed and are providing a service that we request. They aren't a unionized labor force that already gets benefits on top of their above-average wage. Not saying we don't appreciate them, but I don't find the need to spiff people I've never met.

-Chris

[ScottA]

Our mail carrier hit our mailbox with her vehicle not once, but twice and kept on going. So no, not really.