Thankyou From My USPS Letter Carrier

Shawnie · ‎03-10-2010

I left a little bag of candy and a card in my mailbox for my letter carrier today. Just went to get my mailbox and amongst the mailwas a thankyou card from him. Ahhh, he didn’t have to do that!

Pearlee · ‎06-11-2011

@Shawnie Every year I give a gift to my mail carrier ($$$$) and every year I get a thank you note just like that which ticks me off. The USPS raises postage every January yet it looks to me like those thank you notes "from your letter carrier" are given to them by the USPS (I may be wrong - maybe the carriers purchase them but I doubt it) at, I assume, taxpayer expense. So yes, I get one of those and I think my carrier should have used his own thank you notes that he purchase at Hallmark or some place.

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

@Shawnie wrote:
I left a little bag of candy and a card in my mailbox for my letter carrier today. Just went to get my mailbox and amongst the mailwas a thankyou card from him. Ahhh, he didn’t have to do that!

Better manners than some family members !

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Shawnie · ‎03-10-2010

@Pearlee it’s my first one. Usually i meet him and give him a little something. My dad was a letter carrier and every year we would wait for him to come home to see what goodies he had. Sometimes money, but more often homemade things, hams, you name it, theater tickets. One of his route ladies might as well have given her very old but barely driven car to him. He named it Esmeralda! Anyway i hope that Tim didn’t have to pay for his thankyou notes. He works very hard for his customers.

Shawnie · ‎03-10-2010

@QVCkitty1 isn’t that right!!

GenXmuse · ‎05-15-2016

That’s very nice!

shopperqvc · ‎03-10-2010

I have given my postal lady a $$$ gift and a card every year. She in turn gives me a card, and she has said she pays for her cards. There is also a limit to what they can accept. Nothing more than $20.00 is the rule they are supposed to follow.

But then on very hot days I have given her a cool towel and offered a cool drink.

On stormy days I've let her in during the worst of the lightning.

I was out there on the road during all sorts of bad weather, and we were not allowed any tip at all. At least not money or gifts.

But, if a glass of lemonade or a hot cup of coffee ended up in our hands while we were working on a day where that would be good, we were allowed that. And a roof over us during lightning was okay, too as long as it didn't last for hours. So I try to look out for her when the weather isn't good.

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

My carrier hand-wrote a message thanking us for our gift. It is a nice touch, he does it every year.

Pearlee · ‎06-11-2011

@Shawnie I still think the postal workers, whom I agree work very hard, get paid well enough to pay for their own thank you notes for gifts and those shouldn't be given to them at taxpayer expense.

kitcat51 · ‎09-15-2016

There are sites were postal workers can buy Thank You cards for the customers they serve, they are made just for that purpose & feature mailboxes, the trucks they drive, etc. It's nice that the OP left candy & got a note in return. In my area the Post Office is understaffed so our carrier changes all the time, we're an add-on on to their regular route.