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Tips anyone

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TrueBlueTerrier
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

fishtank wrote:
jessthecat wrote:A tangarine!!


A tangarine,a packet of crisps and a packet of sweets......every day for the past 3 years. :Very Happy
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lainey
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by lainey »

60 pounds so far bottle of wine , chocolates that i ate while doing my rural. do you notice its the old people who cant really afford it that give you the money :Very Happy
rolf
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by rolf »

Feck all yet now park and loop and new walk, hopefully get enough to buy a pint on Christmas day at the pub while the wife cooks the meal :nana
Spartacus
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by Spartacus »

redspartapost wrote:£45 so far on long weekend so floater might get some tips tommorrow , but dont mind because he has been its floater for 5 years.

I do the floating duty and always give any tips to the regular, he gives me 16% of his total on Christmas eve, this works for all 5 duties I cover, works well, i trust them they trust me.
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music4essex
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by music4essex »

Hi I have been on my round for 4 yrs
So far a tin of biscuits and about £50 with a promise of a couple of more xmas presents , as someone said it is mainly the older people on my delivery the big houses and business don't bother even if there mail is not correctly addressed , though i made aa point of it today to one.

when I was off in the summer from the accident even had a couple of get well cards from some

Essex mum :Very Happy
Exrep
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by Exrep »

jessthecat wrote:A tangarine!!
You sure it wasnt a clementine lol
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slinger
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by slinger »

We are an office with quite a few rural walks/van job and they deffo give more tips than housing estates/towns.

Bless the old dears, it is the ones that can't afford much that tip us/bin men/milk men etc

I used to do a walk in a quiet little village for a bout 4 years and each year I was on it I was getting more tips - 100 quid first year, 150 second and so on. One of the women who used to part of the same village never said how much she got, but we all reckoned 4-500 quid plus flowers, chocolates, biscuits, drink - her trolley bags where fuller when she got back after her round!
DemonPostie
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by DemonPostie »

I got my first tip today.

I do holiday/leave cover, so a different round every week or so. I thought long and hard about what to do with my tips. Should I give them to the regular guy, in the hopes that he will throw some back my way? Or should I keep them for myself?

Anyway, the tip I got today was:

6 boxes of fudge.

Awsome.


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Re: Tips anyone

Post by DGP1 »

DemonPostie wrote:I got my first tip today.

I do holiday/leave cover, so a different round every week or so. I thought long and hard about what to do with my tips. Should I give them to the regular guy, in the hopes that he will throw some back my way? Or should I keep them for myself?

Anyway, the tip I got today was:

6 boxes of fudge.

Awsome.


-demon
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crazytaxifife
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by crazytaxifife »

This time last year I was on a regular walk and I done quite good on tips, January got moved onto another duty, thought this looks good, come May duty got lapsed and totally messed up by full timers, brought to attention of dom plenty times in the hope to be put back on it, eventually got put back on Monday, too late to sort out mess that has been done, but hopefully nice chat and plenty smiling might put things my way! Thanks Royal Fail!!!!
el_cartero
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by el_cartero »

my area is very poor :so there

had a dog bite n thats it :d'oh!
one day part timers will have the same right as full timers
Wessex
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by Wessex »

3 x £5 so far , off this week tho' :sad:
zuvin
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by zuvin »

just enjoying a nice bottle of merlot from a very grateful customer
pondhopper
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by pondhopper »

Before today I had £20 in tips... from 3 diff customers.. Relief postie picked up a £5 tip last week, told him to have it.
Today I got £20, inside two xmas cards, from two more customers, and a bottle of wine as well from another. I was bloody careful going around on delivery with that in my pannier on the bike as well. Poxy bike fell over twice with the packets I had in it.. Broke the fall anyway but the bottle was safe! Now at home and will be drunk over Xmas! (Cabernet Sauvigon)
I make a note of the people who tip me and I "look after them" through the year.

Would like to know what happens to people who don't tip you... If they don't tip me then it's 'bye 'bye 'laccy' bands on the bundles of letters they did get, will get theirs in a mess on their doormats, and 739 cards left for packets etc... not left with a neighbour/friend etc or in a safespot they may have.
Did this last year and one person came up to me on delivery, after xmas, and gave me a tip,after a week of mail all over his doormat... (£10 tip) 'normal service' resumed for him... bands on his mail, packets left with neighbour etc.
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Re: Tips anyone

Post by Exrep »

1st tip today £3 thanks panorama
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