Should you or Shouldn't you, tip your preloader?

[rod]

Think about it for a second----drivers make $33/hr (or more)----a $100 tip works out to 3 hours of work or just under $2/week.

Preloader gets $100.

Helper gets $50.

Mailman gets $20.

I used to tip the paper boy but I get my paper online because of delivery issues.

Mailmen here are not allowed to accept money tips. You can give them a 5 dollar gift card for MacDonalds but not 5 bucks cash. If you give them cash in the mailbox you get it back the next day with a pre-printed note stating that according to postal regulation 555.555 (or something like that) your mail carrier is not allowed to accept money tips. Once again---it must be different out east -----or you are full of BS about tipping your mailman.

 

[leastbest]

I tried to speak to management but their response was always, "No custom loads". No problem, I let them know I would need help with the 0/70 and I'd do my best. I made more money and everyone from management to customer was unhappy.

 

[leastbest]

I spoke to management repeatedly. Their response was, "No custom loads". No problem. I made more money and everyone from management to customers were unhappy because I couldn't do my job. I had to have another hourly meet me on the route to deliver and it would screw up my day. If it was loaded in the back I could deliver it myself. Oh well, it was their company.

 

[leastbest]

Didn't mean to double post that. Thought it didn't post.

 

[rod]

Didn't mean to double post that. Thought it didn't post.

Happens to the best of us. When I double post I just edit it by erasing the double post while replacing it with more BS.

 

[jumpman23]

Mailmen here are not allowed to accept money tips. You can give them a 5 dollar gift card for MacDonalds but not 5 bucks cash. If you give them cash in the mailbox you get it back the next day with a pre-printed note stating that according to postal regulation 555.555 (or something like that) your mail carrier is not allowed to accept money tips. Once again---it must be different out east -----or you are full of BS about tipping your mailman.

If mailman is dumb enough to let them know he got a cash tip, then their an idiot plain and simple.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

If mailman is dumb enough to let them know he got a cash tip, then their an idiot plain and simple.

The mailman on my route,makes out like a bandit.

 

[jumpman23]

My preloader make $33 + hr. no tip.

I got that one, some people didn't get that 1, went right over their head lol.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

I tried to speak to management but their response was always, "No custom loads". No problem, I let them know I would need help with the 0/70 and I'd do my best. I made more money and everyone from management to customer was unhappy.

Tell your loader? They tell us no custom loads too...but I do it all the time!

 

[bleedinbrown58]

I got that one, some people didn't get that 1, went right over their head lol.

What are you talking about?

 

[jumpman23]

The mailman on my route,makes out like a bandit.

You like me make out like a bandit also for playing HOLLYWOOD lol. Made over 1200 bux last year from all my customers and I know you probably got me beat on your tips from your customers G man lol. Pays to take care of your customers. Helen Keller and Stevie Wonder get no tip from me lol.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

The mailman on my route,makes out like a bandit.

Envelopes are heavy! lol i don't tip my mailman...I do tip my garbage man though.

 

[jumpman23]

What are you talking about?

Hes basically saying his preloader sux balls and he has to straighten the whole load on the road because of the super poopy load lol.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Hes basically saying his preloader sux balls and he has to straighten the whole load on the road because of the super poopy load lol.

No...see post # 31...FT preload makes as much an hour as drivers.

You don't tip your loader anything?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

If my wife bakes enough xmas cookies.
I bring him some of those too. He really appreciates them. Says his wife cant cook or bake!

 

[numberonedriver]

I gave my loader 2 nice bottles of wine last xmas. Best xmas loader I have ever had she didn't have any misloads for all of December.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Alot of drivers complain about the preload. Most of them,couldn't do that job. it's a mind numbing shift.

 

[jumpman23]

No...see post # 31...FT preload makes as much an hour as drivers.

You don't tip your loader anything?

Hmm that's interesting. Different all across the country. Here you never get the same loader all year long. You might get 3 different people loading your truck in 1 week. Never the same at my ghettoazz center. And they all freakin blow. Only loaders that are even worth anything are the old school loaders who actually know how to and use their commonsense like YOU DO lol.

 

[brown metal coffin]

A good preloader,can big a big difference in your day! A bad one,can ruin it.

Amen and Amen. I always have tipped my same loader $50 for Christmas. Usually its just a regift that I got from one of my customers but to him its a big deal.

 

[PT Car Washer]

I spoke to management repeatedly. Their response was, "No custom loads". No problem. I made more money and everyone from management to customers were unhappy because I couldn't do my job. I had to have another hourly meet me on the route to deliver and it would screw up my day. If it was loaded in the back I could deliver it myself. Oh well, it was their company.

So it is not the preloaders fault. Just him caught in the middle. Make the driver happy by not following directions and risk a thankless job or just go along with what management tells you.