I actually got a card in the mailbox from my mail female man. She's probably had this route for 20 years.

I'll have to get a card and some sheckles (a few scratch offs) for her.

do you tip your letter carrier

I do for Christmas.

I don’t tip her. She doesn’t tip me. It’s a good relationship.

I don't tip my letter carrier, the local office appears to rely on occasional parttime carriers which are regularly changing. It is as likely the tip could go to someone who is delivering for the first time as it is to someone who has delivered numerous times. Mail delivery times vary with the carrier as I have seen the mail delivered as early as 9 AM and as late as 6:30 PM. In the same week. Most days it arrives between 11 AM and noon.

Richj: Not any more.
Their service is so bad, so slow and so expensive I refuse.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I was a rural mail carrier, and when I retired word got out that it was my last day on the route. One of my customers gave me a fishing rod, saying that I'd probably be doing a lot of fishing. Another one gave me a gift certificate to a nice restuarant, while another gave me a bottle of wine. I stopped at one of my favorite customers box, and inside was a note telling me to come up to the house. I did, and when I went to the door, the gal who was a very good looking thing in her late 30's, told me to come in and follow her. We went into the kitchen and she had fixed me a very nice lunch. After I ate, she took my hand and led me into her bedroom, and proceeded to give me the best piece I'd ever had. When we finished, she said that she'd told her husband that morning that this was the mailman's last day on the route and she wondered what they should give me. She said that her husband said "screw him", so she did, but the lunch was her idea.

James Jr. 😂

Ron

Pics or it didn't happen!

Am I supposed to know what our mail carrier looks like?

I do not even know if it is man or woman.

Now, the driver of the UPS truck which brings me goodies from Midway USA, Natchess, and Grafs, that's a different story. I know him well.

LOL🤣🤣

My neighbors were away and I was collecting their mail for them. A temp carrier lady came by and I said I take my neighbors' stuff. She said that was not allowed and that she had to put the mail in their box. I suggested I just walk along with her until she did that, and on the way I asked her if this made me a mail escort. She about fell over laughing.

Rocky

I'm stealing that one

Rich

Mine doesn't speak English.

Mine has purple hair, and can’t seem to get the mail put in the correct boxes. I have no idea what gender it is.

Hell no I don’t tip, and they’d better stay offa my gd porch!

Our mail lady was our carrier for more than 20 years and was very efficient at her job. She announced her retirement a month or so before her last day but I am sure she gave the PO more notice than that.

Well the PO obviously planned poorly because they had no carrier to replace her after her last day. We got our mail twice in in a 3 week period of time with no notice of a problem and no notice that we should come to the PO and pick our mail up. I did to go to the PO and pick up our mail for that period. As you know most payments are due within a 2 week period or so in todays world and I could not do without my mail.

I had a long conversation with the Post Master at the branch office and they just said they could not find someone to replace her. My response was that was unacceptable and in the private sector deadlines must be met and if it meant overtime and rearrangement of schedules that is what they must do. Just say they have no one to delivery it was a poor answer.

Well, a phone call to my congressman and low and behold we started getting our mail again.

VaHunter, they won't hire a competent white guy.

We have a different goofball every month or so. Some are real good, and they snatch the good ones up and put them on harder routes, and give the leftovers our easy small town route. Every time they change, I have to teach them where to put packages so we don't back over them leaving the garage. They can't figure out that a garage has cars in them and will destroy anything they leave on the ground behind them.

Every small town PO around here has displays out wanting backup rural carriers. I'm on a rural route and I'm convinced our mail doesn't even run every day. It seems every few weeks there's a new face behind the counter at the semi-rural PO I use, and most of them look like they just finished working in the garden. I'll bet there's no vacant positions at the regional/district offices.

This

Our mailman, Harry is awesome (old, white guy - go figure)
He has our cell numbers, and we have his, just in case there's ever a question or something we need to coordinate about a delivery.
Once he found an AR optic in his bin that had come out of its packaging and there was no sign of the packaging anywhere.
He came up to my door and asked me personally if it might be for me, since I get a lot of firearms flyers in my mail (I'm an FFL). It wasn't, unfortunately.

Darn right Harry gets a nice tip at Christmas time.

Did you read the other posts?

I tip my mail carrier $50 every Christmas, she does a great job delivering our heavy boxes right to my door.....and my driveway is a little over 1/2 mile long. She's a nice hard working lady, and deserves credit for going the extra mile with a great attitude and smile.

Many years ago when I was living way out in the country I had a distant relation that was my mailman and he was a retired Navy guy. He loved Canadian Beer and at the time and since I was part Canadian I traveled alot to Canada seeing family and doing other things, I would bring back a bunch of Canadian beer which at that time in the 70's was a lot because the border didn't do much inspecting back then. Anyhow when I would get back home I would put a beer can in the mailbox which would alert him that I had beer for him. I would leave several cases on my back porch and when I would get home from the field that night the beer would be gone. When I would see him a family gatherings he would always thank me.

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the same one twice.

We tip ours each Christmas
Because she brings oversized boxes that won't fit in our mailbox to our door instead leaving a note telling us we have to go to the PO in town to pick it up AND two times that our mailbox got badly damaged by some yahoo driver that took out our mailbox, she brought our mail to the house for us.

At Christmas time we give a $50 gift certificate to our carrier for a local restaurant.