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Originally Posted by BogeyBoy
Direct from the US Postal Service Website: (Emphasis added)
Employee Tipping and Gift-Receiving Policy
All postal employees, including carriers, must comply with the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Exec*utive Branch. Under these federal regulations, carriers are permitted to accept a gift worth $20 or less from a customer per occasion, such as Christmas. However, cash and cash equivalents, such as checks or gift cards that can be exchanged for cash, must never be accepted in any amount. Furthermore, no employee may accept more than $50 worth of gifts from any one customer in any one calendar year period.
Obviously this policy is broken all the time.
Not all employees in our area are contract employees. Hopefully those who are did their due diligence before bidding. I would guess their contract has a clause very similar to the policy above - and in general terms I think the above policy applies.
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Excellent advice. We are all grown up. None of us need guidelines for our gifts. Well some MAY need them, but it isn't our place to give them. And who is anyone to say who needs what.
We have WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on our hands.
Remember those pesky Pharisees.
And the elves too. They are watching.