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It's hard to catch our trashmen/recycling trucks around here because they come at all different times and are also paid through our association fees, so I don't get to tipping them.

Our mailman, we leave giftcards - usually Wawa ones. I'm thinking everyone has to like something in there.

We tipped our mail carrier and I tipped the guys in the parking garage.

Our mail carrier left a post card in our mail thanking us. Very nice touch.

Well as a former letter carrier, I just want to quickly address these things:

(1) The magazine subscriptions arriving late is not your letter carrier's fault, it's the publisher. You need to contact the publisher to address this. I used to have an elderly woman on my route who got the Philadelphia Inquirer delivered each day in the mail (yes, in the mail...she said the regular paper-route delivery didn't work for her.) Well, the paper constantly arrived days late due to no fault of mine. After about a thousand complaints, it was addressed on the Inquirer's end.

(2) The yellow slips in your mailbox are because the letter carrier attempted to deliver the package and you weren't home. Believe me, the letter carrier WANTS to get rid of the package. These packages are not left behind in the post office; each letter carrier has a carrel for his or her route, and when they leave each day to deliver mail, the carrel must not have any first class mail or packages left over. After the first unsuccessful attempt, the package is then kept in a different place (behind the front counter so it's there if you stop by to pick it up). At that point, the letter carrier may just deliver you a slip reminding you that the package is there for you to pick up.

(3) If you don't know that your regular letter carrier is working your street during the holidays (and often they are not - because of the high volume of mail, flexible letter carriers are used to take off some of the load for the regular carriers), you can leave an envelope in your mailbox with "PLEASE GIVE TO THE REGULAR LETTER CARRIER FOR 1234 JONES STREET, THANK YOU" or something like that, and most of the time it will get to the right person.

This is not to say every letter carrier is a paragon of virtue - of course like with everywhere, there are some bad apples, but for the most part they are hard-working people.

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This morning the trash man came down the streets blasting their horns like a wedding caravan. Tenzo was terrified as the horns sounded a lot like an elephant getting closer and closer. Poor guy was shaking.

Couldn't figure out why they would continualy blast their horns. Then I thought of this thread.

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Peace Out, Philly!

Well I'll take your opinion on the magazine sub on good faith, but no we are home we would hear the door if anyone knocked and no one ever does. Once or twice the letter carrier has knocked because he couldn't jam the 10 issues of my daily mag sub that arrive in bunches.

But I've literally gone out to get a cup of coffee, no mail, got coffee go home, no mail, go into kitchen cook eggs, less than 15 minutes goes by and there is mail in the foyer, I go to get it and it has the darn package card in it. I open the door but the mail man is gone gone gone.

Anyway ... we are serviced by the post office below 10th and Dickenson and there have been numerous threads about problems with delivery and service at that particular location.

So for the moment no tip for my mail man.

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~John F. Kennedy

Well, you might have one of the bad apples.

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Originally posted by EastChestnut:You're a vicious vegan activist.
Originally posted by ddelorenzo: You're a disgrace...
Originally posted by Shosh: And good bullfighting is amazingly beautiful to watch.
(see for yourself here)