[Trayderjoe]

Beginning on almost day 1 of owning our home in the Villages, our mail person(s) frequently put some of our mail in our neighbors mailbox, and his mail in ours. We usually end up passing each other the mail that was misfiled. We have had other peoples mail in our mail box, and who knows where else our mail has gone? Every Christmas we get a note from our mail carrier addressed to my wife and my mother-in-law (she comes down as a snow bird and my father in law did the same until his passing), but using her first name and my surname. No mention of me at all-unless they were thinking of ergonomics, so in the spirit of reducing the amount of writing they figured that using both of our names together would count as addressing both of us, which is ok. So, no we don't tip the mail carrier. Most of our important "stuff" is handled electronically so if there are those who would suggest that if we tipped we would get better service, I refer you to the first sentence of this post.