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ZipTheWonder:
....to post my very own gen-u-ine "Etiquette Hel-lo?!?!" experience.

I received a Christmas card (in my mailbox, without postage) from our mail carrier today.  Enclosed was a handwritten, xeroxed note on the bottom half of a sheet of paper torn in two.  The note reads:

"If making a monetary gift, please note the maximum is $15.00 per household.  You may deposit to my account #4424041 with Whozagiggee Credit Union, so that theft may be avoided of any and all gifts.  Thank you and Merry Christmas."

Doesn't that beat all? 

dawbs:
uhm, the postman should know that (assuming you are in the US) sticking a note without postage in the mailbox is illegal, right?

(although he is correct on there being a limit to what they can be given...not that he necessarily should be advertising that)

Chocolate Cake:
About the first of December, our newspaper carrier (who is an adult man) always puts a holiday card "conveniently" containing his full name and address into the newspaper sleeve.   It so totally feels like a shakedown:  If I don't tip, my paper will end up in the bushes, the street, or on the roof.   

I thought my experience was bad enough, but now I can see from your experience that it could be worse.

kingsrings:
Have you considered that the carriers might be required to do such by their newspaper bosses? Maybe they are streamlining the process so that carriers do not end up with a lot of different gifts or gifts that aren't appropriate. I remember when I worked at a senior home for two years, our boss would send out a letter to the residents asking them not to individually gift each one of us and that if they did want to give a gift, to contribute to an employee gift contribution fund. Then he would split it fair and square and we would all get our portion of it.

ZipTheWonder:
I think it takes almost as much nerve to tell someone what they can and cannot give someone else as it does to "shake someone down" for a gift.  Maybe more.

Note:  This is not the same as telling an employee they cannot accept a gift.  It's one thing to tell the employee  they must decline ,quite another thing to tell the clients they are not to give.

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