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What’s the average tip for a delivery driver in the US?
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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Why do you tip at all when they're rude?
Well as they say, every dog has their day. It could be that the driver is just having a shitty day and we all have them. I try to be empathetic. As long as the guy isn't spouting out hatred and biogtry, they'll just get a reduced tip. I've been known to give even bigger tips to delivery drivers that are just plain awesome.
As someone who used to be a delivery driver in the uk the idea of getting a tip for doing a shitty job is bat shit insane, I almost never got tips beyond people telling me to keep the change and even when I did get a tip it was usually £2 for driving about 20 miles to do a delivery.
The absolute highest tip I ever got was £10 for delivering 2 full bags of food to a super rich neighbourhood in about 15 mins because it was the first house on my route. (And that £10 was still less than 10% of the cost of the order.)
As someone who grew up in the US, from my perspective it's less a question of "how good of a job did they do" and more a question of "did they do so poorly that I'm okay with them not making enough money to pay their bills or buy food this week." Not that my single tip is going to make that difference, of course, but at least in my circles the thought is that delivery drivers and waitstaff are paid poorly enough that tips are needed even for average service. It's not a great system and I'm all for changing it to making tipping truly optional, but in the meantime I'd rather tip even subpar service than contribute toward someone's financial worries.
This is exactly what I am getting at!
Because the penalty for being rude shouldn’t be starvation, probably.
I mean, doing your job poorly usually gets you fired, which kinda does lead to starvation if you don't find a different job. Why should delivery people be the exception?