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This is normalizing tipping drivers and pretty soon it will be expected. Resist this enshittification.
...that's just shipping cost? you already pay extra for that.
To add to this; the shipping costs of "free shipping" Chinese webshops are paid by the Universal Postal Union (UPU) because China is considered a 3rd world country and it's a way of helping them. For bigger local webshops, the costs of cheap or "free shipping" are mostly because they get a bulk discount and move the shipping cost into their profit margins. (That's why it's minimum $20 for example). So even with free shipping, shipping costs are always being paid, and the deliverers should be able to get paid a fair wage.
Tipping somebody that is just doing their job is stupid. One should tip because somebody doing their job did more than their job, or because you want to lessen the workload, like rounding up for convenience.
I would argue that shopping for a person is different than straight delivery. Depending on the shopping, I could be convinced that tipping could be appropriate.
The least you could do is type correctly so the rest of us don't have to waste time reading your last sentence three times to work out what the hell you mean