Christmas Tips..What are some people thinking?!!!

[fly-catchers]

Six of my best tippers have died since last Christmas And another has moved to Australia! Perhaps they are trying to tell me something!

bill

[dejavu]

Ive lost a few to the grim reaper since last christmas. But once the santa outfit comes on the customers go mad for it. They love the thought of the postie being a big part of the build up for the kids and brings a smile to there faces. Last year I made 5-6 hundred quid plus bottles, chocs and smellys. You just need a secret weapon.

[The Bigamist]

One of my regular tipper's came out 2 years ago with my card....as I sped to the van to open it...got out of sight and ripped it open...there was nothing in it...!!!! I sat there for ages contemplating whether I should go back and tell her....what would I say , how could I word it without sounding like a beggar...? I checked the inside of the van from top to bottom several times.......even looked in the wing mirror to see if it had fell out on the way to van...then I'd go back to the card and search it again and again,again...!!! Never ever got that Fiver....yes that's right a Fiver...all that time spent looking for a Fiver...!! And yeah....I got it last year....dozy auld mare musta forgot it 2 yrs ago...!! I wish I'd went back an asked...!!!

Never put you down for a begger ! You been learnin fae the KA7 bung squad !!!!?

[bunkerland]

A lady 2yrs back use to give me a hanndful of sweets and some cards to hand out to her neighbours as she was on a oxygen tank, anyway last year she gave me this plastic picnic plate , thought this has gone up in the world, but sadly she was giving a lot of things away as she had decided to give up life and starved herself of the oxygen tank and passed away soon after xmas,

Essex mum

Thanks for cheering us all up ! Have you considered a part-time job with the Samaritans?

[Edward Hunter]

Had one bloke tell me to "wait a minute" and he tramped off in to the house shouting to his wife "where`s the postmans tip" Much banging and clattering for what seemed like ages and back he comes "merry christmas" he said handing over a packet of pot pourri.

[krussel]

A lady 2yrs back use to give me a hanndful of sweets and some cards to hand out to her neighbours as she was on a oxygen tank, anyway last year she gave me this plastic picnic plate , thought this has gone up in the world, but sadly she was giving a lot of things away as she had decided to give up life and starved herself of the oxygen tank and passed away soon after xmas,

Essex mum

Thanks for cheering us all up ! Have you considered a part-time job with the Samaritans?

[DGP1]

I deliver to the local Rabbi..............................I'll leave that joke for the rest of you

[anTi]

1st tip of the year yesterday.

£3 from some old dear.

More required :)...

[RedBagMan]

First Christmas for me - although I've been on the same walk for pretty much 5 months - no idea what to expect ...

[OnAFlyer]

First Christmas for me - although I've been on the same walk for pretty much 5 months - no idea what to expect ...

Depends on the area you deliver in and if people like you or not. Our office delivers to shitty estates and the average is probably 30-£50, the longer you're on a walk though the more you get. I've been on mine 8 years and got £150ish last year, plus wine, chocs etc.

I did once get a bar of soap off an old woman, didn't know whether to laugh or have a shower

[TeeferTiger]

When I had my own proper delivery round, and got conned out of it, the guy I trained up and then replaced me, got an apple as one of his tips...

I got a fiver from one of my customers earlier this year. I think I'd probably have done alright for tips this year if I hadn't been off sick since July

[SWIM]

£730 last year,plus few bottles of wine and box of chocolates.

[fishtank]

£25million and a private jet last year but this year i'm on a van share so no doubt i'll have to split the tips.

[post_bitch]

£1250 last year

[stokes11eg]

I'm grateful for anything! but there are a few regulars who wait until after Christmas, and then give me what is usually their unwanted gifts! However, now I'm on a different round, I expect nothing! And, how much do you give your own postie by the way! Use to give my regular a fiver, but no time for the chancer who does my house now, so he will be getting nowt! One year, I must have had about twenty tins of those 99pence boxes of cheap biscuits!