The demise of the milkman/woman.

I’m another Milk and More customer and very happy with the service. Milk arrives three times a week, delivered in glass bottles and placed in a cool box before 6am. Payments, holidays and additional orders are all dealt with online so no fuss. I have never seen my milkman, but he’s very quiet and never gets the order wrong.

I always had milk delivered by the milkman, it was just so convenient to have it delivered early in the morning and in glass bottles. But when we moved house I phoned to arrange delivery, only to get put through to a call centre with a foreign woman unable to understand me, so I gave up and buy locally.

I have a milk delivery even though I live within walking distance of Lidl and Tesco! My milk is delivered in glass bottles. I have had a milk delivery for years and it was one of the first things I arranged when we moved a year ago.

I signed up with a mikman about 18 months ago. It was fine to start with; we had one delivery a week (it's only me and my son) and, as long as I remembered to put the empties out, everything went smoothly. A couple of months ago I opened the front door at 11pm and found the next morning's milk already on the step. I queried it with the firm and didn't really get an explanation. The next week the same thing happened. I had a look at prices in the shops and realised I was paying quite a lot of money for my few bottles, which seemed to be a day older than I had thought when they were delivered. So sadly I cancelled the order.

I was never sicker or fatter than when I was married to the milkman. Chronic sinusitis, bronchial conditions including pneumonia and lots of weight all disappeared after my divorce. As a nurse, I've helped people give up dairy only to find that a lifetime of inhalers and asthma magically disappeared as lungs cleared. Too much mucus from dairy.... I don't miss it at all but I still have a husband who gets up at 4 a.m. to go to work, lol.... just a healthier career.

I just couldn't get the hang of ordering/cancelling on line, after years of leaving notes in the bottles. I was informed by a sad milk man that the round had been cut to 3 days a week instead of 6 and NO more notes in bottles and NO more cash left in envelopes. I rung up once to cancel my order whilst on holiday,but a very impatient lady informed me it all had to be done on line, so I cancelled altogether

That's a shame,
if you might be considering to stop your milk delivery's, can I ask you to think again.
Also to suggest if you don't have milk delivered to try the service again if you can afford it.
Please remember that only one plastic bottle in ten is recycled.

Infoman, thanks for putting if you can afford it.
Our nearest delivery service comes from a farm 27 miles away and costs £1.46 per bottle. We get through at least 5 x 2 litre containers per week @ around £1.75 each and the shop is within walking distance.
I regret the use of plastic, but the way forward needs to be finding a biodegradeable replacement.

We don't have a milk delivery but there is a greengrocers van which parks up on village greens etc. Unfortunately I am at work on the day it is near us.

As a child we had “Harry the Milkman”. Everybody knew him and he worked for a small local dairy. He served several small villages and kept everybody up to date with local news. He would also pass messages on or drop something off.

I can remember my Mum making him steaming hot coffee made with milk as he stood there wrapped up against the very cold weather. He loved listening to my Mum’s Irish accent.