[retiredguy123]

This entire thread is repulsive to me. Apparently, we live in a country where employers expect their customers to pay their employees, and employees who expect the customers to supplement their income with tax avoidable cash income. We should expect and demand that employers pay fair wages and that employees be competent and assertive enough to demand a fair wage. Tipping should never be automatic and should only be done when an employee does something that goes beyond their normal service responsibility. Neither employers nor employees should expect customers to give tips.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

This entire thread is repulsive to me. Apparently, we live in a country where employers expect their customers to pay their employees, and employees who expect the customers to supplement their income with tax avoidable cash income. We should expect and demand that employers pay fair wages and that employees be competent and assertive enough to demand a fair wage. Tipping should never be automatic and should only be done when an employee does something that goes beyond their normal service responsibility. Neither employers nor employees should expect customers to give tips.

Are you living in the Village of Fantasyland????

[Shimpy]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

I tape an envelope to the bag in a very obvious way. If someone is so low as to steal a Christmas gift, they may need it more than the refuse collectors

Do you know that you have the same people picking up every week or are they constantly changing trucks and routes?
Mail people and paper delivery people stay the same.

[Shimpy]

I especially tip the paper delivery person because it is the best paper delivery I have ever had. Paper always there VERY early, DRY, and in the exact spot in my driveway every day, 7 days a week. You couldn't ask for any more.

[PaPaLarry]

Originally Posted by Shimpy

I especially tip the paper delivery person because it is the best paper delivery I have ever had. Paper always there VERY early, DRY, and in the exact spot in my driveway every day, 7 days a week. You couldn't ask for any more.

I agree!!!! They are fantastic when it comes to early.

[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.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by 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.

You don't tip to get better service.......maybe a calm discussion of the problems you are having, could lead to better service.
BTW, I have had a few miss sorted pieces of mail in the past 14 years.

[Trayderjoe]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

You don't tip to get better service.......maybe a calm discussion of the problems you are having, could lead to better service.
BTW, I have had a few miss sorted pieces of mail in the past 14 years.

Oh I agree about not tipping for better service, I was trying to "head that discussion off at the pass". We've tried to explain but the errors continue to happen. What amazes me is that the names have to be coming off the mail, but it is like a void in space in trying to correct it. Not sure why, and I am sure we all get others mail, however the frequency it what is disconcerting.

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by CWGUY

I would finish that statement with .... " get on TOTV and bitch about it!"

I agree with the rest and would add this has to be the only place I have lived where people care what others are tipping. I almost have enough stories to write a book about tipping in the Villages.

I could help you write that book. Sometimes, I think about going undercover as a server in TV.........not for long..........but I bet it would not take long...........



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