Christmas Tips

Post by **dvbuk55** » 17 Dec 2008, 17:22

greynut wrote:I got a good tip today....... start learning Dutch........or German...................

I already speak German - vielen dank. I also spent a good deal of time in Holland, nice people very friendly

that was of course 40 years ago.

Himaggen · Post by **Himaggen** » 17 Dec 2008, 22:18

I'm not interested in tips but I've got a few good uns to give...

...like, "No you keep it; you can put in towards a proper letter box or fixing the effing gate"

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 17 Dec 2008, 22:56

I've got a peculiar moral dilemma . Rest day cover working a Sausage chips and beans round and collected a fair amount of tips,what do you do? Guess I'll take the market view and treat it as compensation for wasted investment

Pat Ostman · Post by **Pat Ostman** » 18 Dec 2008, 14:19

Himaggen wrote:I'm not interested in tips but I've got a few good uns to give...

...like, "No you keep it; you can put in towards a proper letter box or fixing the effing gate"

No tips here but not bothered about it, hard times for everyone these days.

Prawn Star · Post by **Prawn Star** » 18 Dec 2008, 19:12

One of my mates buys cards for his walk,every house...he rakes it in.

I work six days on mine and know everyone...they know when i'm off..

I'm on just under 100,expecting more next week.

wandererpaul · Post by **wandererpaul** » 18 Dec 2008, 19:36

Prawn Star wrote:One of my mates buys cards for his walk,every house...he rakes it in.

I work six days on mine and know everyone...they know when i'm off..

I'm on just under 100,expecting more next week.

"begging cards" more like !!!!

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 18 Dec 2008, 20:20

Prawn Star wrote:One of my mates buys cards for his walk,every house...he rakes it in.

I work six days on mine and know everyone...they know when i'm off..

I'm on just under 100,expecting more next week.

I hope he puts stamps on them all

simply_the_best · Post by **simply_the_best** » 18 Dec 2008, 21:03

islfor wrote:I work my floaters day off for his xmas tip, he then has two days off together, he prefers that than £30.

Nice one mate, well done

I'm a floater on 4 walks, i wish the miserable gits would all do that for me

In 6 years only one postie has ever given me £20 from his tips

Edward Hunter · Post by **Edward Hunter** » 18 Dec 2008, 21:07

Prawn Star wrote:One of my mates buys cards for his walk,every house...he rakes it in.

I work six days on mine and know everyone...they know when i'm off..

I'm on just under 100,expecting more next week.

A couple at mine do the card in every door thing and to be fair also do well from it, I have on occasions sent a card thanking a customer for a tip and wishing them a merry christmas.Its a gesture they appreciate (and it usually gurantees a tip the following year!)

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 19 Dec 2008, 14:12

simply_the_best wrote:In 6 years only one postie has ever given me £20 from his tips

This will cheer you up then in 5 years of doing my walk I have only ever got £20 total (not each year but the whole period). Plenty of cards and sweet just not a lot a cash.

marie · Post by **marie** » 19 Dec 2008, 18:03

Edward Hunter wrote:A couple at mine do the card in every door thing and to be fair also do well from it, I have on occasions sent a card thanking a customer for a tip and wishing them a merry christmas.Its a gesture they appreciate (and it usually gurantees a tip the following year!)

if I get any tips, I always send the customer a wee card thanking them, and as you say, they DO appreciate it :)

one wee lady said in all the years she'd been tipping the posties at Christmas, she'd never received a card thanking her - she was delighted I'd taken the trouble.

Some of the guys in the Office think I'm nuts, but, its nice to be nice

Kim · Post by **Kim** » 22 Dec 2008, 14:59

I am a floater covering 5 walks ! The subject of accepting tips is a hard one

. None of the Posties whose walks I cover ever offer me any of their tips

. and I always refuse customers when they offer me, and explain that I only do the walk once every week.. but sometimes they are insistant and it is hard to refuse.I have in the previous years passed on the money to the postie of the walk.. But this year, as the credit crunch is here, I am keeping them for myself !!
Can't wait for my own walk though !!!! but when that will be.. god knows !!

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 22 Dec 2008, 15:03

Kim wrote:I am a floater covering 5 walks ! The subject of accepting tips is a hard one . None of the Posties whose walks I cover ever offer me any of their tips . and I always refuse customers when they offer me, and explain that I only do the walk once every week.. but sometimes they are insistant and it is hard to refuse.I have in the previous years passed on the money to the postie of the walk.. But this year, as the credit crunch is here, I am keeping them for myself !!
Can't wait for my own walk though !!!! but when that will be.. god knows !!

Welcome Kim - hope you like the site.

I got a FT walk after only 11 months but that was because I purposely went for every walk that come up, and this one was so bad that no one else went for it. Its a really bad estate with lots of stairs but now I have been doing it for 4 years I am comfortable with it and enjoy it.

Going for a bad walk is the best way to get your own walk TBH.

Oh and take all the tips you are given, they must know you only cover it 1 day a week and ust want to give you the tip.

Post by **Thorby Bislam** » 22 Dec 2008, 17:51

BELIAL wrote: I've got a peculiar moral dilemma . Rest day cover working a Sausage chips and beans round and collected a fair amount of tips,what do you do? Guess I'll take the market view and treat it as compensation for wasted investment

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NWpostie · Post by **NWpostie** » 22 Dec 2008, 21:35

When I was on a Walk many years ago before going on Driving, a few of my floaters were self serving sociopaths and they have given me tips from my customers or share anything, they were quite happy to dump mail on my delivery or leave Skys, half of the people in my Office are slimey toads and wouldn't trust them to guard a sandwich, which is probably why I am in favour of scrapping Saturday deliveries, I have in the past have been given fairly generous tips sometime they say haven't you got the money from your floaters ? I would have to go round and prise it from their grubby fingers.

There some good ones in my Office..... not many unfortunately, the job is not what it was.