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I'm sure you'll get as many answers as people you ask, but I personally do not.

I tip waiters who come around to refill my water and ask how the meal is.

I tip delivery-people (like, delivery to an off-restaurant location. Not someone who brings my plate out and that's it).

I don't tip other employees at eateries.

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Delivery used to be free from most pizza places and the occasional other restaurant that delivered. Now, almost everyone charges a delivery fee. The idea of tipping on top of that just irks me to no end, although I do it so they won't spit on my food next time. I don't tip my Fedex or UPS deliveryman, why should I tip for food delivery when I've already been charged extra for that exact service?

There are people who tip the fedex or ups courier? I didn’t even consider this was a possibility.

Some people tip their garbage collector: http://www.mymoneyblog.com/how-do-i-tip-the-trash-collector....

From a foreign perspective, where I don't think I've ever tipped anyone in my life, it's absolutely bizarre.

Tipping a garbage collector is bizarre from an American perspective too.

My garbage collector has to park his truck, open my gate, get back in his truck, empty my dumpster, park his truck again, lock my gate, and then finally go on to the next customer.

His extra effort and reliability warrants a Christmas card and monetary gift every year.

Back when I lived with my parents in a single-family home people would give the garbage collectors a little something once per year, usually around christmas.

No, there aren't people that do that, basically. The parent comment was pointing out that that would be an absurdity if it were occurring.

No, of course there aren't. That was the point that was being made about food delivery.

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