Does anyone pay for a milkman?

My neighbour has signed up with one. He arrives early in the morning, makes as much noise as possible with bottles and plastic crates, then charges about twice what the local shop does.
 
i decided to use one recently, obviously forgetting i have a dog, so between 2am-4am my dog walk start barking at a strange man walking up the drive with a head torch on...

Milkman promptly cancelled. :cry:
 
Looks like Ernie will soon be outclassed , his successor able to outrun any dog

The Australia-born, London-based businessman is president of the Enhanced Games, a sort of Olympics without drug testing which he says “will obliterate all the world records” by “unlocking human potential.”

The Enhanced Games has its own website, featuring a video that purports to show the “fastest man in the world.”

“He has broken Usain Bolt’s 100m record. He has unlocked his body’s true athletic potential,” the website says. “But the world isn’t ready for him.

“The Olympics hate him. He has been vilified. He will be vindicated.”
 
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.

We pay about £4 a week for:

1 pint of semi
1 pint of OJ
1 pint of Oat milk

Delivered over two days. Always come at around 2am.
 
Haven't seen it as an option here but probably wouldn't. Especially as we're on a gravel road and it would wake the neighbours. Previous village the milkman nearly killed my mum and dog as he reversed up the lane at full pelt without looking properly (0530 ish).
 
Me and my GF get through about 5-6 litres a week (~10 pints) so im sure it would be expensive.
4 litres of Cravendale whole milk is £4.
I bet its not £1 a litre from the milkman?

Didnt even know milkmen/milkwomen/milkthey (:rolleyes:) existed any more.
 
I use a milkman. Four pints of semi-skimmed per week (Mon 1, Weds 1, Fri 2) in returnable glass bottles and usually just under £15 per month. I can change my order by Whatsapp the evening before. He does bread, eggs, yoghurt, cream. butter, cheese, fruit juices, spuds... pretty sure those are more for the golden oldies who don't get out regularly.

Edit: although it is nothing like the unpasteurised milk we used to get delivered when I was a lad. Loads of yellowish/orangey cream at the top, which the birds would peck through the foil to get at.
 
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Me and my GF get through about 5-6 litres a week (~10 pints) so im sure it would be expensive.
4 litres of Cravendale whole milk is £4.
I bet its not £1 a litre from the milkman?

Didnt even know milkmen/milkwomen/milkthey :)rolleyes:) existed any more.
Milk they have only existed if you're referring to more than 1 milkman at a time.
 
Are Arabian milkmen called Milk Sheikhs?!

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