Does anyone pay for a milkman?

I did recently, for a few weeks. Ended it though.
Kept having to topup from shops, milk was not of any great quality, opening the door to get it and managing bottles etc was annoying. And it was expensive.
 
We've had milk delivered to our door for as longas I can remember.... I'd never stop the service as it just wouldn't seem right to get up in the morning and find nothing there!
 
need to get the non-homogenized, and then have the challenge of gently pressing the foil cap, before selfishly pouring the cream onto your cereal.

was the definitive ernie - benny hill's

 
squerble said:
We get two 1 pint bottles of milk delivered twice a week. Total cost £3.92, so about 2.5x the cost of buying a single 4 pint bottle in the supermarket - it's only bought because my better half wanted to reduce plastic waste.

It's very annoying as there's no guaranteed "deliver by" time, so occasionally it's been delivered at 0730 or later when we've gone to work, and sometimes the lid doesn't seal quite properly and the milk doesn't seem to last as long, even though they live in the fridge. Couple that with the fact it's sometimes delivered at 0500 on a Saturday and we don't get up until 0800 means it's been sat outside in 16C+ heat for 3 hours, which probably doesn't help either. It's a massive faff.
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Sounds awful.
 
it's been sat outside in 16C+ heat for 3 hour need a modern refrigerated 'safe' outside the front door for those perishable deliveries.
 
I can't remember the last time I even saw a milkman around here. It must be at least 6 or 7 years ago although he only had a couple of customers even then. I guess it got to the point where it wasn't feasable for him to keep the round going and it's som much cheaper from the supermarkets anyway, especially as they also deliver now.
 
Cromulent said:
I'm thinking of getting milk and maybe some farm foods delivered in the morning and was wondering if anyone else does this. I'll want two or three litres of skimmed milk and maybe some farm food to go along with it.
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I did for a while, but it costs too much. Also, the milk does not do well, being outside. In the summer, it's a matter of hours before it's gone off.
 
No wonder inflation is crazy, we will need interest rates of 10% before people stop having their Chai Latte's and Avocado on toast for breakfast..

I thought it would be a good way of supporting local businesses, but everytime I check the prices out, the cost was nearly 100% above that of just going direct to a super market, or local butchers etc..
 
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Its unsurprisingly expensive because they have a guy driving around from house to house delivering a few pints of milk. Back in the day he would probably have delivered to most houses on a street, now its perhaps one or two.

We had this for a while but as others have said, in the summer it would sit outside from about 12am until we brought it in so it would only last a few days. We are also not consistent milk drinkers so it would either be too much or too little.

We also had people stealing it occasionally. I assume drunk people coming out of the station and fancying a pint.
 
We had one for a number of years as we used a lot of milk and it started before Tesco etc did home deliveries in our area.
The up side was we'd almost always get the milk we wanted and it supported a local dairy and business.
The down side was: It was expensive (nearly twice the price* of supermarket milk), it was often short date/would not last long because it was delivered from what I think was an unrefrigerated van, and by the time it had been delivered at 5am in the summer it was often warming up even if we bought it in straight away (I suspect by the time of delivery it had been out of the fridge for 8+ hours).

When the guy doing it had to retire early due to health, and they cancelled the route because they couldn't get a replacement it was in some ways a relief, as it saved us asking them to cancel it.

*I buy cravendale now, and it's cheaper per pint (and I'm not throwing it away).
 
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Blackjack Davy said:
Havn't seen one for years remember teh Unigate one from when I was a kid you could hear his float coming if you were up late even when the snow fell he'd put chains on the tyres and you could hear the "chink chink chink" from miles away, can't imagine anyone doing that these days
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My grandad was a Unigate milkman in the east end of London :)

every morning he’d be up at about 3-3:30, put his white coat and hat on, grab his satchel and head off to the depot to load up his cart and do his round.

He did it for so many years that when he retired, he suffered from severe insomnia where his body clock never seemed to adjust back to normal. Never let it get him down though, the jolly old soul. Sorely missed.
 
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