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Maybe the best strategy is to tip low when placing the order, then increase the tip after delivery to reward the guy who needed the money enough to take your order with a low tip.

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Then you'd also incentivize workers to take orders with low tips and be disappointed when they really get a low tip.

Seems more fair to me to require the company pay their employees a fair wage and benefits rather than redefine those that work for them as contractors to dodge those obligations.

Most people who accept a low tip order would not be expecting to get any more than what was there

For a while, that's what you had to do to keep Instacart from taking a big chunk of the tip. They finally stopped doing that, after public pressure.

https://www.eater.com/2019/2/6/18214354/instacart-delivery-w...

why not just tip them in cash?

Many or most deliveries are contactless: https://news.instacart.com/introducing-leave-at-my-door-deli...

I doubt an Instacart contractor would turn down a cash tip. Pre-COVID, I exclusively tipped Lyft drivers cash. Yes I had to keep small bills around. Ended up not being a big deal.

Taping an envelope to your door clearly visible for the delivery person would still remain contactless. If the envelope is still there when you pick up your items, then no harm in trying

And if it's not, then you'll wonder if it went to the Instacart driver or the UPS guy.

(well, not my UPS guy, he's actually a she, and she gives my dogs treats when she sees him)

You kind of know if you have deliveries coming to your house, right? You get to schedule your Insta deliveries, so just don't make your Insta deliver 10:30am, 3pm, or 9pm. Should avoid the UPS delivery

I live in a condo with 4 doors in close proximity, so I don't really know when UPS, Fededx, Ontrac, Amazon Delivery or USPS are coming -- UPS could come anytime from 8am-6pm, and sometimes more than once a day.

Fair enough. I wasn't considering non-single family locations. At that point, you wouldn't know if it was a rando walking down the corridors let alone an actual delivery person. No good deed goes unpunished

This is what I do. I write INSTACART on it. Everyone loves cash.

How do you secure it?

People steal Amazon packages regularly, I think they would not hesitate to steal something that says "Instacart" on it.

Is there an app to deliver cash to my house? I haven't been to an ATM in at least a year.

/s but only kind of.

you do have a point. i have used cashapp more in the past 4 months than i have ever used it.

I don't even see the delivery driver, he drops the food off, knocks, and leaves.

Besides, I don't want to have to keep a supply of small bills around just to pay a tip that I could have just put on my credit card. I rarely pay in cash these days (even pre-covid)

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