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Note that tipping TSA agents isn’t allowed because federal workers are forbidden from accepting gratuities for performing official duties.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Ridley-Thomas’ lawyers had already accused prosecutors of conflating bribery and gratuities.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

In this term alone, they decided that gratuities are no longer a crime that can be prosecuted at the federal level.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2024

He said he had witnessed officials whose demands for gratuities had been refused helping themselves to the ship's food provisions.

From BBC • May 14, 2024

Other sources of emolument were—1st, gratuities, varying according to distance, from 1d. to 3d., on every letter he collected or delivered; and 2nd, what were technically called "Bye-letters."

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert