Have you seen that UPS commercial with the series of happy, smiling people so delighted to be receiving their packages from the happy, smiling UPS driver? The one that ends where the children rush up and spontaneously hug the UPS driver?
If I were a parent, I think one of the last things I would do is let my kids hug deliverymen.
I was a delivery driver in a former life, and you would not believe how excited these people are to see you if you are a nice-ish person. I delivered to businesses mostly, so I saw a lot of lonely shipping/receiving folks. Some of them brought their children to work just so they could meet me. On my last day people actually cried as they signed off on their shipments. I’m certainly not boasting; I think that this is symptom of unhappy people in unsatifying workplaces.
Poor souls.
I suppose I could understand hugging a delivery person if they were bringing me my copy of Happy Scrappy Hero Pup v.2.
I’d hug my delivery man, but he’s married.