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Comment by bad_good_guy | Hacker News Reader

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I understand.

You are complaining that _only_ 43% of the people you deliver to tip you?

Why does a delivery person get tips? We are already paying for delivery...

I wouldn't even know how to go about tipping my delivery person(s). I started home delivery of a newspaper last fall and the service got pretty bad right after the holidays (the paper is now consistently halfway down the lawn rather than on the covered front porch, where it was ending up consistently before Dec 2016). I'd be happy to tip, but the billing and payment is all handled online, and this is a person I've literally never laid eyes on. Parcel delivery suffers from the same problem. I'm a heavy user of Amazon, but never present when UPS comes.

Here is what many do.

Week or 2 before Christmas tape a card/envelope to your door. One marked "UPS" and the other "USPS"

(my town USPS delivers most Amazon like dog food and UPS delivers heavier Amazon packages)

Sounds like a great way to "tip" people who are neither UPS or USPS.

Tips are optional.

Often, people who came up from the working class tip because they recall crappy pay, poor conditions etc when they started and appreciate my hard work with a tip. Others do not look at it that way and have your own thinking.

Im okay with either. I get it. Many of my patrons are unemployed due to retirement, living off interest and savings. They all tip. The young up-and-commers hardly tip. I think it's because the young had a different kind of life (ie easier) than the older retired generation.

I think it depends on if you got tips when you worked your crappy jobs. If you got tips, then you give tips.

If you worked minimum wage jobs that didn't get tips, then you get resentful of the entire tipping culture and only tip when socially necessary.

Why does a waiter get tips? You're already paying for the service.

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