Nah, I'm still trying to promote the idea of a "topless" pompier calendar here. It appears our local firefighters actually use their own pictures of their exploits - but it's a very "business like" calendar. (Oh well, I can always dream.)
Here, the poubel guys are usually the first out and around - and in early to mid-November. They generally save me any "donkey" calendars if they have them or give me first choice of their cat options. We're buddies with one of the guys who drives for the garbage company - though he changed routes a couple of years ago.
Then, we have a mailman who lives on our street. Again, his route was changed after he moved in, and the current "regular" mailman lives not far away and knows us. (He's taking English classes and practices by saying "hi" to me - but not much more.) The postal calendar has maps and other "almanac" like stuff in it, though it does seem to be pretty much the same stuff every year.
The pompiers are always the last to come by - sometimes after Christmas even, and when you buy a calendar you get a raffle ticket, though I've never heard who (if anyone) actually wins anything out of this raffle.
Still, my understanding is that the money goes toward either the employee himself (ours are all guys) or to their "social fund."
Cheers,
Bev
I have, in the past, tried telling them not to give me the calendar (and receipt for my contribution), but that doesn't seem to work, so .... whatever makes them happy 
