Tip or no holiday tip? Etiquette for letter carriers, dog walkers, and other VIPs
Letter carrier Tom Tryon visits a home in Croydon on December 4, 2018. DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer
Editor’s note: This article was published in 2018. If you decide to give tips in person, you should take precautions against contracting COVID-19. Tom Beggs’ holiday tips have run the gamut. A garbage collector in the King of Prussia area for the last decade, Beggs has received winter gloves, sweatshirts, homemade sweets, and Wawa gift cards.
Tons of Wawa gift cards, he said. Beggs, 31, of Brookhaven, appreciates any and all tips, he said, and especially loves when customers come out to his big, blue Republic Services trash truck to give the gifts in person. His ideal tip comes in the form of cash, which he then uses to buy Christmas presents for his family and friends.