Does this seem like an ok tip or am I being too cheap?

[SparklyUnicorn]

Sunday paper delivery only (with 7 day full Internet access) costs $1 per week.  I just reordered 26 weeks and added in $5 for a tip.  That works out to about 19 cents per paper.  Feels kind of cheap to me, but I dunno, maybe not.  I delivered papers as a kid and a typical tip was 20 cents per week for 7 day a week delivery.  Of course that was 100,000 years ago.

 

 

[TXBeth]

I think it's fine; it's nearly 20%. People with 7-day delivery will tip more.

[Pegasus]

People still pay to get a newspaper delivered?  I thought that went the way of milk delivery.  We get a couple of papers but they are freebies and we don't ask for them.  We pull out the sales flyers for the grocery store and recycle the rest.

[Farrar]

I tend to think that 20% is nearly always okay as tips go.

[Spryte]

100,000 years ago? That's all? You are so young! My kids ask me about life with the dinosaurs...

[ThursdayNext]

Way back when I used to deliver the paper, people only tipped at Christmas.

[lynn]

I made $6 a week delivering papers (tips only) and bit more at Christmas. Considering people get paid for delivering papers today 20 percent is about right.