Doorstep milk deliveries

Couldn't resist it !

Apologies for the advert at the beginning.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI

A milkman came to ask if I wanted doorstep delivery. I felt bad about turning him down, but I can go weeks without using milk and often have to dispose of a carton of it that has gone sour.

We still have doorstep deliveries, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Very reliable, they come in the very early morning but we never hear them. Local family run farm. If anything goes wrong (occasionally milk is stolen from the doorstep) they come straight out with a replacement.

Long may they prosper.

Here in Malta we have never had milk delivered to the door. However, the bread man calls twice a day, the doughnut seller every afternoon (!), and the vegetable lady once a week.

We, too, stopped having a milk delivery when the family firm sold the round to a large dairy company. What had been a good reliable service became very poor, often very late (after I'd left to go to work) deliveries, bolshie delivery men, and just a poor way of doing business in general. We, too, buy a 4 pinter from the supermarket as and when required. I don't feel guilty either.

I used to, it was always the first thing we sorted whenever we moved. Find a milkman (who came daily and before 9am in those days) then organise the daily newspaper delivery. But I haven't done either for at least 20 years when we moved away from London. Now I buy from the supermarket ... I'm sorry that the milkmen are in decline but locally they can't provide a reliable and affordable service. Ho hum...

I used to have doorstop deliveries before we moved house a couple of years back. Simialr to you it was a fmily company and you could always rely on them. The milk was fresh and local too. Since we moved there are a couple of my neighbours who have deliveries but they deliver quite late (around 9-9.30 am) which means the milk would be on the doorstep all day as I would have already left for work. So no, I buy a large carton (4 pints) twice a week at the supermarket and don't feel in the slightest bit guilty.