# Do you leave money for your mail carrier at Christmas?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-leave-money-for-your-mail-carrier-at-christmas/281370>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 23, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-leave-money-for-your-mail-carrier-at-christmas/281370 "2004-12-23T19:42:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-leave-money-for-your-mail-carrier-at-christmas/281370/21 "2004-12-25T18:24:52Z")

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Yes, I gave our nice lady some dough and a card, because she hefts an awful lot of catalogs and mail order loot for me, always with a good attitude and a greeting.

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**Author:** ![Frankenbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Frankenbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankenbear)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-leave-money-for-your-mail-carrier-at-christmas/281370/22 "2004-12-25T23:52:19Z")

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I live in a rural area and have a PO box but I also have a business in town so that carrier got a gift. I couldn’t afford to give cash so I made two batches of fudge (one with nuts and one without), arranged it on a nice Christmas plate and wrapped it up with clear wrap. I put a crocheted angel on top instead of a bow and placed it all in a gift bag. I prefer to do things like that anyway because to me it’s more personal than an envelope with a few bills in it.

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**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-leave-money-for-your-mail-carrier-at-christmas/281370/23 "2004-12-26T13:43:35Z")

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We’ve had loads of problems with our mailman. He either doesn’t drop off our mail or doesn’t pick up outgoing mail based solely on his whims. :mad:

No $ for him.

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