{"id":5675,"date":"2018-12-20T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/is-the-tradition-of-christmas-tipping-still-going-strong\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:26:18","slug":"is-the-tradition-of-christmas-tipping-still-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/is-the-tradition-of-christmas-tipping-still-going-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the tradition of Christmas tipping still going strong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To some, slipping a note or two into the hands of the postie or the refuse collector at Christmas time is second nature.<\/p>\n

But others have never heard of it. <\/p>\n

The tradition of the “Christmas box” sees people give cash or small gifts to those who perform personal services in their lives – be it the person delivering the milk or post, cleaners or hairdressers.<\/p>\n

And some can take home a decent haul.<\/p>\n

Modern manners specialists Debrett’s suggest giving a \u00a35 tip to those delivering goods to your door, along with those taking rubbish away.<\/p>\n

But in the days where people rarely see their refuse collector, don’t know their postie and carry less cash<\/a>, is the tradition dying out?<\/p>\n

Jason King and his dad Neil have worked as postal workers for more than 14 years.<\/p>\n

Last year Jason says he made \u00a3350 from tips, which he puts down to knowing his customers, and never leaving a package undelivered.<\/p>\n

But more experienced dad Neil brought home a haul of \u00a3600, plus around 50 bottles of wine and a huge stash of chocolates.<\/p>\n

Neil has a special technique to help his customers embrace the season of goodwill: he delivers post dressed up as Santa.<\/p>\n

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In the run up to Christmas, he and his colleague, who dresses as an elf, embark on festive deliveries around their patch in a Cambridgeshire village.<\/p>\n

“The kids love it, the mums and dads spend a bit of a time saying hello,” Jason says.<\/p>\n

Jason said he’s only gone as far as sporting a Christmas jumper, but is tempted to follow his father’s footsteps.<\/p>\n

Throughout December, their sorting office is awash with gossip of colleagues’ Christmas tips totals.<\/p>\n

But he says “it’s not a competition” and that those who deliver to villages tend to do better than those in towns, since they know their customers better.<\/p>\n