# Should I have offered a tip in this situation? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-have-offered-a-tip-in-this-situation/989265 "2023-08-29T04:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-have-offered-a-tip-in-this-situation/989265/21 "2023-08-29T18:15:28Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > It was a favor, freely offered. If you’d asked, it would be different. This. She offered to help you so there should not have been an expectation of a tip. If it had been busy there and you asked for assistance then you would have been really nice in tipping her. But, how much? A couple bucks? Enough for lunch ($10)? How much is appropriate for what she did? I mean, the hand truck did most of the work. Sometimes a heartfelt “Thank you!” should be enough. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-have-offered-a-tip-in-this-situation/989265/22 "2023-08-29T20:21:54Z")
> [@alovem](#): > > Now it’s heavy lifting? You said it was less than 10 seconds of tipping and sliding. You missed the word “lift” in the OP. The top of the package was resting on the bumper, the bottom of the package was still on the hand truck. > [@alovem](#): > > 74 is old, whether you like it or not. > [@alovem](#): > > If you’ve never been a “what’s-in-it-for-me” kinda person, now’s a good time to start. I hope I never become that kind of person. If I live long enough that I have to have help, I will expect to pay for that help when it comes from strangers. > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > WTF was in the package?!? It was a steel cabinet with 13 shallow drawers; it was apparently designed to store machinist things called end mills and similar things. I am going to clean it up, try to make it slightly less industrial, and use it for fountain pen storage. > [@bob\_2](#): > > What I might have done though is to send an email to the depot to express my thanks for the help I received. An excellent suggestion, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-have-offered-a-tip-in-this-situation/989265/23 "2023-08-29T20:59:27Z")
I couldn’t find an email, UPS doesn’t seem to like them, so I wrote a regular letter to the manager of the facility. Thanks for the suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-have-offered-a-tip-in-this-situation/989265/24 "2023-08-29T21:11:14Z")
The UPS store in Prescott Valley has a tip jar. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-have-offered-a-tip-in-this-situation/989265/25 "2023-08-30T05:53:46Z")
The shipper paid UPS to deliver it to your address. That you drove to their office to get it was already doing some of the work that UPS was paid for. So one of their employees helping load it into you car is the least they can do. No tipping required. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-have-offered-a-tip-in-this-situation/989265/26 "2023-08-30T15:36:13Z")
> [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](#): > > The shipper paid UPS to deliver it to your address. I’m pretty sure the charge to the shipper would have been the same either way. Anyway, this has nothing to do with what the counter person did to help me with my package. Our interaction was personal, not corporate. Or at least that’s the way it seemed to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-have-offered-a-tip-in-this-situation/989265.md?page=1)