Will the Real Daily Sun deliverer please stand up?

[Villageswimmer]

About 2 weeks ago, there was a green flyer in the bag with my newspaper. It said the typical Merry Christmas...followed by a name and full address in Umatilla. I set the flyer on my desk with the intent of sending her a check.

Today, in with my DS is a Christmas card! This one is from a different woman with an Oxford FL P.O. Box address.

Neither name is the “deliverer” I sent the check to last year although I certainly understand that could have changed.

Hmmm.

[Nucky]

It Sounds like a Scamaroonie or Double Dipping. Just bad, bad business. No good deed goes unpunished!

[Bogie Shooter]

About 2 weeks ago, there was a green flyer in the bag with my newspaper. It said the typical Merry Christmas...followed by a name and full address in Umatilla. I set the flyer on my desk with the intent of sending her a check.

Today, in with my DS is a Christmas card! This one is from a different woman with an Oxford FL P.O. Box address.

Neither name is the “deliverer” I sent the check to last year although I certainly understand that could have changed.

Hmmm.

Call the circulation department...

[Jdmiata]

Call the paper. They will give you the proper name.

[retiredguy123]

Regardless of who it is, I think soliciting for a tip is wrong, inappropriate, and in bad taste.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

Regardless of who it is, I think soliciting for a tip is wrong, inappropriate, and in bad taste.

I feel the same way about redundancy.

[Chatbrat]

Just got solicitations from my paper & mail persons

[CWGUY]

I feel the same way about redundancy.

:coolsmiley: I agree! And how about the people who think Tipping is a city in China? They know who they are...... 1-2-3 :ho:

[justjim]

Regardless of who it is, I think soliciting for a tip is wrong, inappropriate, and in bad taste.

As I remember, our previous newspaper had an official Holiday card with the Carriers name and address where a tip could be mailed. Most of us never have met our Carrier who usually delivers the paper by 4:30 each and every morning. Without an official card, calling circulation is a good option too.

As a “paper boy”, I can remember hoping for a large “Christmas tip” as I made the monthly collection. Of course, business is different today.

[bagboy]

You can make sure your carrier receives a holiday tip by calling the paper and tipping through them.

[New Englander]

Just got solicitations from my paper & mail persons

Got one from my mail room gal.

[vintageogauge]

I too was a paper boy and really appreciated any tips I would receive around the holidays. it wasn't much, a quarter here and there and if really lucky a dollar bill. They deserve it, we never had to call the DS to say our paper was not delivered or it was late. Same with our mail girl, she does a great job and has a great personality.

[Marathon Man]

I feel the same way about redundancy.

And the response of the week award goes to ...

[CFrance]

I won't bore anyone with all the changes that have gone on in our lives the last two years, but suffice to say it involved many mail forwards, address changes, and having no address in TV for 8 months but still getting mail here. Our mail room gal sorted (so to speak) through all of it, catching all the USPS mistakes and fixing them. If she wants to give me a Christmas card with her address on it, I say good for her. None of this "that's her job" stuff. She does her job above and beyond her stated duties and deserves a good Christmas tip.

[mamamia54]

That’s a good business in itself. Go around early in the morning and put cards in everyone’s paper and sit back and watch the dough come in. Shameful!

[Two Bills]

When I was a paper boy we delivered into the house.
Did not throw paper into a fifty yard area of the property!

[cherry 2]

I called Daily Sun about this issue. Tammy from the green flyer resigned first of Nov the new carrier is in Oxford

[Bonnevie]

I made note of my carrier who I tipped last year as there have been changes in the past. I got a card from the same person this year so I know he's been doing a great job all year. My paper has been there at 5am when I was up because I couldn't sleep. It's always there. That is great service. I happily sent him a bigger check this year.

[Bogie Shooter]

That’s a good business in itself. Go around early in the morning and put cards in everyone’s paper and sit back and watch the dough come in. Shameful!

Really??

[Bogie Shooter]

I know my mail guy. See him at the station actually talk to him.
How can somebody go for a year and the only way they know it’s the same person is to compare the name?

[kaydee]

I save the insert from year to year..we’ve had the same DS delivery person for several yrs. I gladly send a card with Holiday cheer enclosed

[conmadev]

Ditto. I called the Sun. Current carrier began delivering papers in November. Previous carrier received our gift.

[Travelingal702]

I firmly believe in tipping the person who delivers my daily newspaper. It ALWAYS arrives in a timely manner; always in a plastic sleeve and always in my driveway. They have to get up super early to put the newspapers together/in a bag; load them into the car and remember who's on vacation, etc. It's not a job I would want. They deserve to be remembered at Christmas.

[villages07]

In our area, apparently we have a new delivery person who started in November. The previous one was Aug-Nov and who knows who was before that.


The service has always been and remains stellar.


The dilemma...who/how to tip? Give a year's tip to someone who has been on board a month? I usually send it at Christmas to the person who put the envelope in with the paper. My subscription isn't up til Jan/Feb and it seems late and impersonal to do it then. I wonder if the Daily Sun apportions it to current and former delivery persons? Somehow, I doubt it.



The Aug-Nov carrier left an envelope at my door but did not identify himself as the former delivery person. Seems a bit disingenuous to me.


If even just 50% of their customers tip, it's a sizeable end of year bonus.

[Velvet]

So what is the usual tip for the newspaper deliverers?

[Nucky]

So what is the usual tip for the newspaper deliverers?

$25. The Newspaper was early the morning that Irma was the biggest concern for our community. They are just wonderful. Maybe they should get a little more this year.

I don't like the idea of the money going to the wrong person. Great thread. :boxing2:

[JSR22]

I tip $50 about a dollar a week.

[blueash]

I know my mail guy. See him at the station actually talk to him.
How can somebody go for a year and the only way they know it’s the same person is to compare the name?

It is very easy not to know your mail person. Either you pick up when they are not there, or more likely sometimes they are there inside doing their job with the door closed and I suspect would like to do it without interruption if it is not business related. That is how somebody can not know if it is the same mailworker year to year.

[Bogie Shooter]

So what is the usual tip for the newspaper deliverers?

"usual" is up to the tipper......we need guidelines for this?

[Velvet]

"usual" is up to the tipper......we need guidelines for this?

Tipping is quite different where I am, therefore, I’d like to have an idea of what the person might expect. And if I can I add a little more.

[Bogie Shooter]

Tipping is quite different where I am, therefore, I’d like to have an idea of what the person might expect. And if I can I add a little more.

This should cover all your tipping opportunities.
General Tipping Guidelines and Etiquette for Every Situation - Money (https://www.aarp.org/money/budgeting-saving/info-11-2012/tipping-guidelines-and-etiquette.html)

[Velvet]

Wow, I’ve been over tipping... I was worried I was under tipping... good information, thank you.

[JSR22]

This should cover all your tipping opportunities.
General Tipping Guidelines and Etiquette for Every Situation - Money (https://www.aarp.org/money/budgeting-saving/info-11-2012/tipping-guidelines-and-etiquette.html)

I wonder when that article was published. I don't know anyone who tips restaurant servers less than 20%

[Bogie Shooter]

I wonder when that article was published. I don't know anyone who tips restaurant servers less than 20%

Here is another article that was published on Nov 4th. Tipping Etiquette: How and How Much to Tip in Every Situation | Real Simple (https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/money/money-etiquette/tipping-etiquette-guide)

[Sage327]

Same thing happed to me. I found a Christmas card by my door from a Daily Sun courier. And no newspaper!
When I called the Daily Sun about the card and no newspaper he said that was interesting because the card is always in with the paper. Couldn’t give any explanation for the missing paper though.

A week later there is a Christmas flier in with the newspaper from a different courier with pictures of his family and the usual holiday greetings. :shrug:

[CWGUY]

I wonder when that article was published. I don't know anyone who tips restaurant servers less than 20%

:ohdear: Villagers!

[daystogo]

:coolsmiley: I agree! And how about the people who think Tipping is a city in China? They know who they are...... 1-2-3 :ho:

That's an old old joke..