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I've seen people state online before that they don't even accept an order if it doesn't come with a tip. This leads me to wonder how common it actually is for people to tip their dashers in the US. I'm in Australia and of the 887 deliveries I've completed, I've only ever been tipped for 5 of them. Two of the tips were 5 AUD (3.46 USD) and three of them were 2 AUD (1.39 USD). (I've never even seen an order with a preadded tip).

This does make sense given that we don't have a tipping culture (people usially only tip if service was beyond exceptional, like 20 stars out of 10 so to speak, and even then, they'll usually only tip a couple of dollars. It won't even go directly to the waiter either; it'll go in a jar up the front that from what I'm given yo understand is divided between the waiters at the end of the night. Growing up, I always viewed it as tipping the restaurant for good service, not the actual waiter. And, in the case of waiters this is fine as national minimum wage is 26.44 AUD per hour (18.33 USD per hour).

However, as Dashers aren't paid minimum wage, this really sucks for us. There is an argument to be made that the lack of tipping motivates workers to organise and this argument seems to be supported by the fact that as of 1 July Doordash is now required to pay us 32 AUD (22.18 USD) for every active hour (so, for all the time we spend getting to and from restaurents, waiting in restaurents, and so on) and the fact that this major win was achieved by the Transport Workers Union which represents dashers, uber drivers, and so on, along with other transport workers like pilots and truckies nationally.

So, how much do you guys over in the US actually get tipped and how frequently do you get tipped.

Prior to Zohran Mamdani's election, I didn't really get the hype because here in Australia local governments don't do much. However, he seems to be doing a lot. Like A LOT.

It seems like a lot of what he's doing is stuff that would be left to our state governments. For example, down here, transport is managed by the states. Likewise, education is solely managed by state governments in co-ordination with the federal government.

Local councils deal with things like rubbish bin collection, bike lanes, zoning laws etc.

So, how much power do mayors in the US actually have and how does someone like Zohran manage to co-ordinate his agenda with the various other local councils that presumably make up Greater New York?

I'm a former Anglican (Catholic now). I have been having a discussion over on r/Catholicism about the Anglican Ordinariate and my experience of it as a former Anglican. Growing up, the Anglican parish I attended only ever used the Second Order from "A Prayer Book for Australia (1995)". As such, given that the ordinariate Mass is heavily based on the Book of Common Prayer (1662), I was saying that it felt very foreign to me and that I'd left feeling disappointed as I miss Anglican liturgy and had hoped I would go to the ordinariate and experience something that felt familiar but instead experienced something that in many ways felt more foreign than the standard Catholic Mass (Novus Ordo) (The feeling of greater similarity between the liturgy I experienced growing up and the Catholic Mass is obviously a result of the fact that the authors of prayer books like APBA drew inspiration from the then newly reformed Catholic Mass.

The Anglican parish I grew up attending (which used APBA) was fairly high Church. The vicar from that parish later moved to another parish which, from the videos I saw of their liturgies during Covid was even more Anglo-Catholic than my own. Yet, he continued using A Prayer Book for Australia. I also went to an extremely Anglo-Catholic parish for a while and, from memory that also used A Prayer Book for Australia for their main Sunday Mass and used the BCP (1662) for their early morning Low Mass. Prior to my conversion to Catholicism, I came to identify with Anglo-Catholicism. Yet, I don't think I remember ever encountering the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (once again, commenters on r/Catholicism who are familiar with Anglicanism in the US saw this as strange). There is one continuing Anglican Group (the Traditional Anglican Church Australia) which I believe does use the BCP (1662), but they only have like 700 members and 6 congregations (I'm not even sure if they're all still active).

Commenters said that this seems odd from a US perspective that all the High Church parishes I've attended use A Prayer Book for Australia instead of the 1662 BCP and so we are starting to suspect that it may simply be the case that the BCP (1662) is fair less commonly used in Australia (even by Anglo-Catholics) than it is elsewhere in the English speaking world. More broadly in my post I was questioning the value of the ordinariate if the BCP (1662) is so rarely used. Again, some users pushed back against the premise that its use is uncommon. If it is, in fact, less commonly used in Australia, then that would explain my experience of the ordinariate in light of my experience of Anglicanism and would go along way to properly contextualising my criticisms of the ordinariate.

Obviously due to the fact that most individuals on r/Catholicism have no experience with Anglicanism they can't help me answer this question. Additionally, due to how dramatically Anglican parishes within even the same diocese can vary, I'm not sure if my experience is typical or whether I was simply oblivious to a more widespread use of the BCP (1662). It's also obviously the case that the way Anglicanism is expressed varies dramatically across Australia with Sydney Anglicans, for example, being much more evangelical than other Australian Anglicans.

So, I was hoping that you guys could shed some light on how common it is for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer to be used in Australia, especially as opposed to how commonly it is used in other English speaking countries and chiefly the US.