Irrationally excited about the milk delivery.

Always had milk delivered here as well. And eggs. (Both are always very fresh.) From a local (not national) supplier. Still in glass bottles which are "washed and returned".

They've started delivering again where I live but some ner do wells having been pinching them off the doorstep.

My milkman delivers seven days a week. I also like that I can just put a note out asking for anything I need on short notice: eggs, bread, potatoes, cheese, etc. Last winter I ordered a snack of grit/salt to use on the snowy drive and pavement. And there's extra supplies on offer at Christmas.

I decided to have milk delivered but I never knew when the milkman would come and sometimes I’d get home to find warm milk that had sat there for hours.
As the delivered milk is so much more expensive than supermarket milk, I just couldn’t afford to keep pouring it away.

My daughters started to have milk delivered but stopped because he came so late in the morning there was often not enough milk for breakfast ( grandchildren drink a LOT of milk) He also often didn’t take the bottles away. Last straw was the day he swore at her and she complained to the depot. The did nothing so she cancelled the order and has gone back to having milk in plastic bottles delivered from Abel and Cole. We all like organic milk and are willing to pay extra for it

Not that it often happens, but I never pour excess milk down the sink. I always keep a plastic bottle or two, and it goes in the freezer.
Or I make a rice pudding, or pancakes, or something else to use it up.

We’ve had milk deliveries for ages. I find it very handy, esp. since you can order a multitude of other items before 9 pm - or cancel what you don’t need. Ours nearly always arrives before about 4 am.

A dd whose dcs were drinking a lot of milk also started having glass bottle deliveries about a year ago, largely to decrease the amount of plastic going to recycling, but also one less thing to have to cart back from the shops.

Sadly in some areas the milk would disappear from the doorstep before its rightful recipient had a chance to collect it!
This used to happen in the previous house l lived in, either stolen completely, or raided by the birds as free food, the local Magpies and Tits were experts at it!

Ooh my nana made the best scones with sour milk
Yummy. She threw nothing away

not have milk piling up and have to pour it down the sink

Ooh, that made me cringe.

So many things you can make with milk "on the turn" : yoghurt, cheese, curds/paneer... but then not everyone knows how these days.

Forgot to add though, if you are housebound it would be useful, especially as they also sell groceries.

There isn’t a milk delivery service where I live, but in any case we have been buying it from the shops for years.That way you get the amount you need, not have milk ‘piling up’ and have to pour it down the sink.
I remember milkmen who arrived after we had all gone to work and school, so the milk was sitting there all day, getting hot in Summer and having the lids pecked by bluetits.
Another milkman woke us up by insisting in delivering the milk about 1 a.m.
Another wouldn’t call every week for the money and when he did call ( saying we owed 5 weeks worth) the sum was so mind boggling, it was hard to find the cash.
All in all, milk from the shops suits us better all round.

I use oat milk and really should give up cow products entirely (so cruel to cows and calves) but I love cheese and need occasional cream for trifle or scones. One daughter has bottled milk delivered but seems to always have a glut or runs out.
Why have milk delivered when the rest of your shopping comes from the supermarket?

Sorry, "take the jug"...not the just !

Lovely post, BradfordLass73 and only this morning I was telling my DH how our milkman, centuries ago when I was a child, used to have two big churns on his cart and a nosebag for his horse. He'd walk up the steps to my Grandma's house and open the door. Inside she kept a big china jug with one of those muslin covers with little bead weights hanging from it. The milkman would take the just, fill it and then replace the cover and close the door. No rattly plastic crates, or the whine of any motor, just the clip clop of his horses hooves as they moved down the street. If we ran out of milk, I could walk across the field to his milking parlour at the farm and ask for a top up for our jug. As someone said in an earlier post, very Enid Blyton. But a lovely memory just the same!

We don't have a choice in New Zealand. It's supermarket or nowt.

We used to have local contractors delivering. We'd leave a message in the clean bottles about anything special we wanted the next day: extra milk, cream, eggs, orange juice.

Weekly payment was left (can you believe it) atop a fence post by the gate, or in the mailbox. No one ever stole it.

Personally, I long for the days when the horse and cart came trundling up the street in Bradford, with churns on the back.
The milkman had long handled ladles with half pint, pint and gill measures on the end.
We used to stand at the gate with a jug and he'd pour in the amount we needed.

Our milkman was Welsh; he told us to call him Eddie Egg.


He had a lovely daughter called Gwynneth whose horse ran away with me when I visited their farm one day. Heehee

Me too Xander noise drove me insane in early hrs of the morning. Then after he'd delivered he would stack all the crates for 10mins engine running before moving off. Dont know anyone that has milk delivered now but we all have a good nights sleep?

Our milk delivery (three times a week, plastic 2 pint bottles) stopped recently as there were insufficient customers to justify it. I find it a real pain to have to keep an eye on supplies and lug it back from village or supermarket, and I felt I was keeping someone in a job. Could only get organic milk in glass bottles, though, just a price increase too far.

Reluctantly, we gave up the milkman when the children were small. He kept forgetting to deliver to our house and despite two warnings, he didn’t improve. I used to have to run to the shops before school when he let me down.

We tried this a couple of years ago but unfortunately we found the milk was usually just in date when it was delivered and consequently went off too quickly so had to cancel it. We don't use that much (I don't use it at all) and as there are just the two of us we threw more out than we used!

ps - I agree with those commenting on the price. £1 a pint from the milkman, against a similar amount for a four pint bottle from a supermarket. However our doorstep milk is organic, so it would probably be more per pint buying organic from a supermarket

littleflo - I am EXACTLY the same with our new doorstep delivery. It's been about five weeks now, and I still get a thrill when I go outside on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and finding the fresh milk on the step.

I also love putting clean milk bottles out on the doorstep.

I do find it odd, however, that the milk is delivered - by car!! - at between midnight and 2am

I switched to daily milk delivery about 18 months ago and am still pleased that I did so though I must say at nearly three times the cost of supermarket milk it would be too much for a family to pay. Still I do hope to keep it up.

I wish the milkman still sold the little bottles of orange that I remember I had when in primary school though

Your post makes me laugh, as we decided to have our milk delivered around 2 years ago after buying for years from supermarket in the plastic cartons. I must admit when I hear the clink of the milk being delivered it makes me happy and reminds me of when I lived at home as a teenager,

About 20 years ago our milkman reported to police that lots of bottles were being stolen from the steps on our street. A policeman came round the next morning and hid out in our backyard shed to nab the culprit (the paperboy). The next day he was marched round all the houses by his dad to apologise to us all.

This seems so Enid Blyton now - how times have changed!