Do I tip or not ??

No.

I do not tip my food delivery drivers, but I do give a present to my "regulars" at Christmas, I also give the coalman, postman and bin men a box of beer at Christmas. We have had a few heavy items delivered in the last few months and tipped the drivers of those.

Seems odd to me that most people generously tip their hairdresser but think it inappropriate to tip anyone else.

Would you usually tip for a service like this in Belgium?

We wouldn't in Denmark, so I think you should keep to local custom.

I always do, whoever is delivering.

I think i would at Christmas time, especially if it was a regular person. We always use to put money in an envelope for our postman with a card thanking him, now we never see our postman as he calls at all times of the day, sometimes at 7pm!!!

I only give tips for takeaway deliveries, I think those are usually low paid. I don't think delivery drivers in general are paid based on the expectation of a tip.

Because people in the restaurant industry are often paid on the expectation of tips I like to be safe.

We always tip our ocado man £5

They get the living wage here, 1560€ per month a friend was a manager in one of the stores and DD asked him.
They deliver to 4 floors here automatically so down one is normal.
As I said I have never used this service before, the only online I use at all is for an online Toy shop called Dreamland and they use Bpost, our Royal Mail.

I only tip my Sainsbury's delivery driver at Christmas but I ask if they would like a bottle of water when I'm handing back the empty crates and most accept.

No need to tip.

One delivery man from Tesco told me that they were not allowed to accept tips. I don’t tip my hairdresser as I think he charges enough, I’m in and out in 20mins and he charges me £45 for a cut and blow dry and he’s the owner of the salon. We always tip our Postman and newspaper delivery man at Christmas and always tip in restaurants.
A few weeks ago we had a man in to do some work in the kitchen and my husband gave him £20 as a thank you, he was self employed by a company who paid him £120 a day which isn’t a lot and he was a very nice man and he did a good job.

On a previous thread on this topic a few months ago, I said I always tipped our Asda/Tesco delivery drivers £5 during lockdown.
Now I'm not tipping. Dont use cash when shopping on high street so its difficult to get change for a tip.

`£45 for a cut and blow dry,,, I am 'finally' going on Saturday, cut and colour 45€.
SIL goes nearby for a gents cut in a posh shop 52€
DD is sick of telling him, my one has won awards his is a chain one.
Mine will not accept a tip as I am disabled and 'old' his words not mine.
As he is 57 and I am 66 I was not amused, but he and his partner are really good hairdressers.

No.

usually not. but why not leave - if he pleased you, delivered quickly, was friendly, helped with big delivery, and so on. that is, it's up to you

Surely most deliveries are now contactless.
A quick ring of the doorbell and they are of.

I certainly don’t want to hand my delivery person anything.
Just a quick thank you will suffice.

Greciangirl

Surely most deliveries are now contactless.
A quick ring of the doorbell and they are of.

I certainly don’t want to hand my delivery person anything.
Just a quick thank you will suffice.

Online supermarket deliveries may involve more than that - for example, we have nowhere to leave the goods or we may want to say which subs we want. We don’t hand anything to anyone btw - when we see the van arriving, we put the envelope under a stone by the gate for him to pick up

I'd have a job! Our local delivery man rings the bell & is back in his van before I get to the door! I might add I move very fast too!
I see they are suggesting that they collect parcels from us now too so he may have to slow down a bit.

No - never, it's a service you pay for and the delivery staff are paid to do. Just say thank you

No don’t tip

No tip. They are doing a job for which they get paid

A minimum wage is a poverty wage. It's up to people what they do but I generally tip most people because so many workers were having a really difficult time even before Covid.

No, of course not. You have already paid for delivery.

Aepgirl

No, of course not. You have already paid for delivery.

No I haven’t / WR deliveries are free