Gifts for the postie/garbo/people you don't really know

Do you give yours a gift?

I'm looking for ideas. Our postie is awesome as are our parcel people. The garbage man is pretty cool too. So I'd like to put a gift out for them this year. In the past I have given a 6 pack of beer or choccies, but having thought about it I don't know if they would like those things so would prefer something more....universal? Plus choccies here would melt if they had to be on a bike/in a truck for a couple of hours rendering them useless. It's already a million degrees.
My dad was a garbage man and he got so many different things, but I remember him not having much use for many of them.

Maybe something small like a small jar of boiled lollies that wouldn't melt. Or jam, lemon curd?

Ours are awesome too.

I have given custom soap in the past to swimming teachers etc that has been well received.

We give beer.

I like to give ambient perfumers or scented candles but only because I have a warehouse full of them. Maybe for a garbo it might be taken the wrong way.

Gift card?

$5-$10 coffee shop gift cards seem to be a big thing here.

Meow, I will admit I was thinking coffee when I was typing the words gift card. LOL

I do a scratchie for the postie, beer for the garbo.

How do you give the Postie his gift?

I just put it in an envelop - brightly coloured and sticky tape to the lid of the mail box, with TO THE POSTIE, on it. Seems to have worked, I live rurally, so not a lot of traffic past my mail box to make it disappear though.

Yep that's what I thought. A scratchie's a great idea!

Connie, anything that's a bit hard to put in my mailbox he brings down to the front door. He's lovely and often waits for the kids before he drives off, so I see him often lol.
Scratchies or a gift card are a great idea!

I'm gonna be a bit bah humbug here..... But do you realise garbo's get paid like triple time on xmas day?

My dad was a Garbo and no, not all of them do. It's not about the pay though. Policemen and women don't get double time on Christmas day and no one leaves them gifts ;)

It's about saying thank you for being kind to us throughout the year.

I know... Was just saying. Glad you have a good Garbo. I wouldn't have a clue about mine, never see em. :-)