Christmas tips

Janet Brum · Post by **Janet Brum** » 18 Dec 2016, 20:43

I`ve got no tips, but I`ve found some coins on my walks, about £2,50 so far

wannabeek · Post by **wannabeek** » 19 Dec 2016, 19:03

If it says 'to postie' then it belongs to the postie that day. If it says 'to Bert' then either leave it there until he delivers there or take it and give it to Bert. This isn't rocket science eh.

I found a box of chocolates, no tag, in a box where the mail goes. Just left it there, might have been a present for the homeowners from a neighbour for all I cared.

Post by **rambo1** » 19 Dec 2016, 19:41

wacko74 wrote:In my experience it's only the rurals that get serious tips. no surprise really as these are the only duties that are cushy enough for the postie to have the time to do the old fashioned things like stop and chat with customers.

Rurals in our office are some of the longest duties, so I wouldn't exactly call them cushy! Very little in the way of tips so far either.

Dorset Plodder · Post by **Dorset Plodder** » 21 Dec 2016, 21:39

wannabeek wrote: I found a box of chocolates, no tag, in a box where the mail goes. Just left it there, might have been a present for the homeowners from a neighbour for all I cared.

We had a lad one year went around his duty and lifted all the beer they'd left out for the Dustbin men. "Well they never gave me a tip...Sod Em"! was his reply when we queried it. He was well pissed that Christmas!

mickeymacca · Post by **mickeymacca** » 22 Dec 2016, 09:48

rambo1 wrote:
wacko74 wrote:In my experience it's only the rurals that get serious tips. no surprise really as these are the only duties that are cushy enough for the postie to have the time to do the old fashioned things like stop and chat with customers.
Rurals in our office are some of the longest duties, so I wouldn't exactly call them cushy! Very little in the way of tips so far either.

I concur with that, rurals used to be a doddle, not anymore. Dutyholders transfering the other way back into the town at our DO.

Yanto · Post by **Yanto** » 25 Dec 2016, 06:12

I cover 3 big rurals..annual leave, sick leave and if the duty holders get taken off to cover other duties (which they generally don't object to as these are BIG rurals!)

The 3 duty holders do very well for tips (at least £600 each)

I always hand over any tips to the duty holders regardless of what's written on the envelope... sum total they've shared with me this year?... ZERO

Next year I'll be adopting a policy of finders keepers

Dorset Plodder · Post by **Dorset Plodder** » 26 Dec 2016, 14:44

Yanto wrote:I cover 3 big rurals..annual leave, sick leave and if the duty holders get taken off to cover other duties (which they generally don't object to as these are BIG rurals!)

The 3 duty holders do very well for tips (at least £600 each)

I always hand over any tips to the duty holders regardless of what's written on the envelope... sum total they've shared with me this year?... ZERO

Next year I'll be adopting a policy of finders keepers

You're up early Yanto! Don't blame you with your policy for next year. That seems a bit tight not getting anything!

I was on a Large Duty on the run up to Christmas, so large in fact that I used the Over Running Procedure and left nearly the top row of mail & packets (about 110 delivery points) every day for the two weeks up to Christmas. This Top Row was taken by one of our "Christmas Special" Guys and was about 2 hours work, which he did after doing a Parcels Run.

I was going to give him a cut of my tips but in the end decided it was probably fair to just let him collect, and keep, all the tips for the 20% of the duty he'd delivered for the last 2 weeks.

I gave him a bottle of Plonk as a Personal Thank You and he never mentioned any tips, or passed on any cards to me, so we'll wait and see if anything's said after Christmas.

wannabeek · Post by **wannabeek** » 29 Dec 2016, 20:15

Back when I was new I used to do the right thing and return all tips to the frame, assuming they'd be allocated fairly. That is what happened in every other job in many industries before I worked here.

I was staggered that I got nothing at all. This is RM I thought, surely a last bastion of British honesty and morality.

No. It isn't. Maybe it never was, I never knew it in the 'good old days'.

ewancurze · Post by **ewancurze** » 31 Dec 2016, 14:57

For the past 3 years myself and my partner have added the tips and divided by 2 so to have an equal share each (and given the Cover man 1/6).....this year my partner has got a lot more than me.....so does not want to do the share.

Means that I am about £80 down on the deal,can't be bothered to have a row about it but if next year I get the most...trust me I will remember!