Last year on upser's.com, they ran a story kind of explaining the Holiday turkey give-away. In the early days of UPS, , they gave the employees a gold $20.00 gold piece, in appreciation of the job they had done. This continued for quite some time, then, I think it was in the 20's they went to the turkey. It was discontinued during WWII, due to rationing and all, but then brought back after the war. Just think, if you account for inflation and all, what the equivalent of that $20.00 would be today. Just a wild guess, but they probably only made that much a month back then. A months pay a Christmas would be a cool bonus, especially for the full timers.