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how you doing for tips?
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Lounge Lizard
- EX ROYAL MAIL
- Posts: 9458
- Joined: 06 Aug 2007, 21:54
Re: how you doing for tips?
Tips from £3 to £40 so far, but mostly £10 this year.
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Exrep
- Posts: 1005
- Joined: 02 Oct 2009, 21:01
- Gender: Male
Re: how you doing for tips?
Ive now progressed from just a bottle of white wine to also a box of heroes and £3
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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DemonPostie
- Posts: 227
- Joined: 21 Jan 2009, 21:37
- Gender: Male
Re: how you doing for tips?
A couple guys in my office get >1000 quid. I've seen the wads of cash to prove it...
I've made a tenner, so far, plus an armfull of fruit and a shite belgian beer.
I've made a tenner, so far, plus an armfull of fruit and a shite belgian beer.
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sidewinder
- EX ROYAL MAIL
- Posts: 348
- Joined: 24 Oct 2008, 18:05
- Gender: Male
Re: how you doing for tips?
Yep in my old office one person who has been on the same walk for 25 years rakes in a good grand plus each year.DemonPostie wrote:A couple guys in my office get >1000 quid. I've seen the wads of cash to prove it...
I've made a tenner, so far, plus an armfull of fruit and a shite belgian beer.
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internetguy
- Posts: 183
- Joined: 01 Oct 2010, 19:04
- Gender: Male
Re: how you doing for tips?
£20 from 2 calls, not bad at all considering i've only been doing the walk for about 6 weeks.....
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Darren Bent
- Posts: 2150
- Joined: 05 Oct 2007, 15:38
- Gender: Male
- Location: Pride Park, Derby, DE24 8XL
Re: how you doing for tips?
Finally got a tip this year. One pound coin. What can I do with it. 
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internetguy
- Posts: 183
- Joined: 01 Oct 2010, 19:04
- Gender: Male
Re: how you doing for tips?
heh hehCarew wrote:Finally got a tip this year. One pound coin. What can I do with it.
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music4essex
- Posts: 717
- Joined: 15 Oct 2009, 16:18
- Gender: Female
Re: how you doing for tips?
Today I got a box of sweets £10 plus another £5 bOttle of wine, as fast as I was trying to get rid of packects I was gaining more lol,
It cheered up my S**te day from management harrasing me
Essex mum
It cheered up my S**te day from management harrasing me
Essex mum
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Dorset Plodder
- Posts: 4351
- Joined: 29 Apr 2009, 20:05
- Gender: Male
Re: how you doing for tips?
How do you treat tips if you're a "Floater" (always makes me laugh 
) or a "Reserve"? If there's a card addressed to to the Regular Postie A) I give it to them if I like them B) I leave it pinned to the door if I don't. If someone says, "You're not our regular Postie", I tell them he'll be back tomorrow. If they say "Have a couple of drinks on me" I pocket it. If it's addressed to "The Postie" I pocket it. 
In either case The Regular Postie obviously didn't make that much of an impression on them. An old Postie I used to work with said, "I start off being a miserable Bastard in Jan and then I don't have to start kissing anyone's arse towards Christmas to get a tip!" He had a point! 
) or a "Reserve"? If there's a card addressed to to the Regular Postie A) I give it to them if I like them B) I leave it pinned to the door if I don't. If someone says, "You're not our regular Postie", I tell them he'll be back tomorrow. If they say "Have a couple of drinks on me" I pocket it. If it's addressed to "The Postie" I pocket it. In either case The Regular Postie obviously didn't make that much of an impression on them. An old Postie I used to work with said, "I start off being a miserable Bastard in Jan and then I don't have to start kissing anyone's arse towards Christmas to get a tip!" He had a point! Like all Wage Slaves, he had two crosses to bear: The people he worked for and the people he worked with! (Stephen Vizinczey.)
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Exrep
- Posts: 1005
- Joined: 02 Oct 2009, 21:01
- Gender: Male
Re: how you doing for tips?
Walk holders weigh in there floaters with 10% of there total in our office.
Gave my driver who does my bags and any large packets £5 today bags were there well on time and he took a few under sized packets very much appreciated.
Gave my driver who does my bags and any large packets £5 today bags were there well on time and he took a few under sized packets very much appreciated.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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not me
- Posts: 2735
- Joined: 10 Aug 2007, 15:07
- Gender: Female
- Location: Uranus
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clashcityrocker
- Posts: 16738
- Joined: 22 Sep 2009, 13:50
- Gender: Male
- Location: strummerville
Re: how you doing for tips?
You see - pro rata doesn't always work against p/timers.custard wrote:£0
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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arty_morty
- Posts: 282
- Joined: 24 Jun 2010, 13:07
- Gender: Male
- Location: London
Re: how you doing for tips?
A box of biscuits, a bottle of Black Tower and a bottle of Grants. I am genuinely surprised as I rarely see any of my customers as their letter boxes are communal.
I staged a Roger Moore impersonator festival in my local village. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, I can tell you.
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music4essex
- Posts: 717
- Joined: 15 Oct 2009, 16:18
- Gender: Female
Re: how you doing for tips?
After being called in the office about an incident, i was late out delivering, but a lady came over to me who always gives me a xmas pressie and inside was a bottle of wine and 4 boxes wrapped in xmas paper so under the tree that went
to day I opened a card from yesterday and it had £20 in it and they also gave me a tin of sweets to day I was given £20 in total and 3 presents, so that made up for the S**Te day i had indoors in th RM of festive spirit not
I also give my driver a box of lagers and my floater gets a percentage of my tips and a box of sweets.
I am £6 short of £200, few days left
I don't want to offend anyone in saying what I got and good luck to you all and Happy xmas to all us workers
Essex mum
to day I opened a card from yesterday and it had £20 in it and they also gave me a tin of sweets to day I was given £20 in total and 3 presents, so that made up for the S**Te day i had indoors in th RM of festive spirit not
I also give my driver a box of lagers and my floater gets a percentage of my tips and a box of sweets.
I am £6 short of £200, few days left
I don't want to offend anyone in saying what I got and good luck to you all and Happy xmas to all us workers
Essex mum
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wiganpostie
- Posts: 670
- Joined: 09 Mar 2010, 20:16
- Gender: Male
Re: how you doing for tips?
Three days left and I have reached the giddying heights of 30 quid and a box of chocolates. Still not a single tip off the scumbag estate I deliver to, though. 