(I know there’s a thread about tipping the UPS guy somewhere but I couldn’t find it. Cursory googling didn’t help much, because a case of wine involves more than the usual light, small, no adult signature required delivery.)
Do you tip your UPS guy? With what? If you give them money, how much? If wine, what kind?
Our guy (for 15 years) would get a different route every holiday season so when I would see him in January I’d take care of him then. Very little wine would get delivered home as the UPS hub was only 3 miles away. With our move to Denver this year I’ve not had much contact with our driver and yet again the hub here is about 5 miles away and I try and get all packages shipped there so they stay off the truck. Plus, UPS deliveries here show up between 5 & 7 pm.
I moved to Denver too 2+ years ago and I’ve not had the same delivery person even twice via UPS or FedEx. Very different than my old setup where I had the same UPS guy for 8 years and his cell phone was in my favorites contact list.
Enough so he (a) remembers which house is yours and (b) won’t claim to have rung doorbell and got no answer when you were in fact there waiting for him.
I usually tip my driver for Christmas. Both he and the local Fed Ex driver are really helpful, delivering wine to the basement level and carrying the boxes for me to the cellar. Between all the wine and Amazon prime, he’s here a lot more than he used to be, so I need to tip more this year, just not sure what’s appropriate.