How much do you tip your newsaper delivery person?

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Last year I tipped my newspaper delivery person $20.00. That is probably an average amount.

I came to the realization that a newspaper delivery person delivers something to my doorstep every day of the year. $20.00 does not seem nearly enough. How much do you tip your newspaper delivery person every year?

Zero.

And every time our newspaper carrier screws up, I call the office to cancel the subscription, they cut me a new deal, and we get a new carrier.

It isn't like I'm getting a brain surgeon or rocket scientist fired...

nothing given I don't subscribe to it. My mother did it "on and off". Now I don't know why she does it...well I think my GRANDMOTHER subscribes to the Chicago Sun-Times though...lol no internet for her...she doesn't like it...she might try it soon...

I get the news online.

Nothing, the newspaper goes directly from the mailbox to the recycling bin. I would truly prefer not getting it at all, however they will not stop. I don't pay a thing for it, but it is a real pain to remove that from my actual mail every day.

I recently learnt people figuratively want to put you up for a death sentence if you don't tip in the US.

I also know it's because wages are so low for many waiters and waitresses.


Glad to say that I do not live in a country where tipping is any more than just an occasional nice gesture.


I don't even know who delivers the newspapers to our house.

I never get the paper delivered, I rarely read them anymore, since its easier to do that online. I am not to sure what I would tip for paper delivery, but $20 to $50 might be a ok.

I don't receive the paper, but since when are you supposed to tip the paper boy?

Tipping is a form of extortion imposed on the consumer in exchange for the service-person not doing something heinous and disgusting to the consumer's food, person, or property.

It stopped being a reward for exceptional service long ago, and has instead become a means of bribing someone to do their job that they were hired to do.

And if being a wait-person is such a hardship, then they should simply get a better-paying job!

I dont have a paperboy, but I was one. I only got tips at christmas and I remember tham being fairly substantial, well substantial to a 13 year old boy! I would imagine somewhere between 5 and 10 $ would be nice, but only if the person has done a generally good job of it throughout the year.

Hmmm... you're supposed to tip them?

Hmm...

Tipping seems to be more of an NT thing, eh?

I don't tip my newspaper delivery person because I don't get newspapers delivered. But I tip my waiter/waitress because I don't want to be the person who ruined their night and stole their service. I have to be very careful with this, as I tend to run very cheap. Like it or not, servers don't make a wage that even covers their taxes or health insurance (if their restaurant employer even offers it) in the US. It's about $2 an hour. It is built into the structure now, so that I am punishing them for a bad system (and not really doing anything to change said system) by not tipping for average service.