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🎁 Holiday tipping I’m not skipping
Patrick Kucharson
November 08, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
This is Better Gift Coach, where mail carriers get their start as hand models.
Estimated read time: 1 minute & 40 seconds
📊GIFT SCALE:
🎁THE GIFT:
The “essential services holiday" Gift
Our mailman is awesome. He always takes the time to acknowledge our kids when they’re playing outside and brings our packages to the back porch to keep them safe. After learning about the USPS Gift-Receiving Policy limits, we brainstormed affordable ways to show our appreciation during the holiday season. Hands, which are essential to performing a mail carrier’s job, can get cold and dry during the Midwest winter months. With that in mind, we gave him a pair of gloves and O'Keeffe's Working Hands Hand Cream.
Content tags: less than $20, holiday tips
🌮WHY THIS GIFT IS GREAT:
Practical & useful
Recognizes someone whose contributions are often unsung
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YOUR VERSION OF THIS GIFT
💡TIPS FOR YOUR GIFT:
Here’s a list of suggested mail carrier gifts
Handwritten cards & kids crafts are also appreciated
Mail carriers aren’t the only folks to consider for holiday gifts
Consider housekeepers, landscapers, babysitters, nannies, school teachers, dog walkers, barbers/hairdressers, personal trainers, doormen, sanitation workers, food delivers, etc. See WSJ’s Holiday Tipping Guide (who to tip, how much, when, etc.)
🤔GIFT BRAINSTORMING PROMPTS:
Are there service workers in your life that you intend to give a holiday gift to this year? _____
▶️FORWARD THIS GIFT IDEA TO:
Someone with a dog who barks at delivery workers
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🤓GIFT GIVING BY THE NUMBERS:
According to the 2022 Deloitte holiday retail survey, shoppers plan to spend nearly a quarter of their holiday shopping budget in October (versus 18% in 2021) motivated by concerns over inflation and stockouts.
😆GIF/MEME:
My Mailman's Hands vs Winter
All the best,Patrick KucharsonBetter Gift Coach™
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