Residential deliveries and tips

Pizza drivers get tips because they are low wage employees. Would you like your wage reduced to minimum wage so you can get tips?

 

Also they usually use their own cars and gas. You up for that too?

 

In jobs that typically involve tipping, that tip is based on a standard percentage of the bill, and can be adjusted based on whether the server met the standard of care, or exceeded or fell short. Do you think the percentage standard ought to apply here as well?

 

Do you tip your mailman? And the garbage man?

 

I ought to add, when I was working LTL, I got tips from about 4 customers over an 18 year stint with the company I was with. And that was only because the customer was absolutely insistent on me getting the tip. I always refused the tips when offered because I was doing my job and getting paid well enough to do it.

 

So you expect a tip simply to put their stuff in the garage? And I have to say, I’ve always hated accessorial charges, I never charged the customer for something that took an extra five seconds to do. Of course I always put the product in a garage, unless the customer specified that I leave it outside in the driveway.

I’m forgetting something here, I have more to add... it’ll come back to me in a minute.

 

I tip when I get something for my money. I tip my mechanic because he will get my truck first. I tip my trash man because he brings my trash can back to my house. I tip my UPS driver because he puts my packages over my fence. I tip the pizza man because he leaves the store with multiple orders and I want mine first.