Is 1am too early for milk delivery?

@purplebeansprouts it's 'gently pasteurised' 😄 & non-homogenised so you get a thick layer of cream at the top - which the kids hate! Weirdos!!

Our milk arrives between 11:30 &1:30...
If we are still up then we put in fridge.

This time of year it's cold at night and it's fine till the morning. During the summer we leave out a cool bag with ice block in and they put the milk in that and it's fine till the morning.

Ahh did they do unpasteurised milk too?

McQueens, Central Scotland

I'm in Somerset - we used to use Milk & More but switched to a local farm called The Milk Shed - started as a milk vending service, then expanded to local deliveries, now has expanded to deliveries much further afield. They do milkshakes & cream too.

Oh, I have never heard of Milk and More. Thank you @MarkingBad

The milkman who delivers in our village comes between half six and eight in the morning.

Why is 'Milk and More' delivering at 1am?

I genuinely thought it would go funky if it was left for 6-8 hours. If it stuffy/humid/warm. Some summer nights it can be 18-22C in the summer. (Occasionally higher, like 26C, and very humid too.)

.

Delivered from Milk and More.

Not sure why you think milk goes off that quickly unless you heat it and leave it to stand in the warm first. I used to be in dairy, milk is quite good at staying fresh in normal UK temperatures despite being left out for hours.

I speak as someone who has enough exposure to it to know if the milk will last a couple of days or just that morning more by a mere whiff of the stuff.

My Dad was a milkman for almost 30 years - as he always said "someone has got to be first & someone has got to be last"
At the height of popularity of milk deliveries he was starting to deliver to customers at 10pm to be finished by 6am.
He'd always have someone complain no matter what time he delivered.

I actually cancelled a milk delivery because it was delivered too early. I think he was starting the business around another job.
The earliest it came was 10pm. Problem was it was pre-children so the milk sat out in full sun for hours sometimes before we got up and we did get milk going off.
It was also stolen a few times by people going home from the pub.

The final straw was basically they wanted a months notice to cancel a delivery, but it was before kids so we would go away a lot. It was never going to work for us, I remember the wife shouting at me down the phone, I think a lot of people were cancelling.

Where are all these posters living where the milk is delivered at midnight to 1.00am? Never known this anywhere, ever.

Mine comes around 1am,I have an insulated box bought from the milkman.

1.00am? Who the F delivers anything at 1.00am? Let alone milk?! Batshit. I'd stop it to be honest. When it's muggy and humid through the night in the Spring and Summer, it's going to be like cheese by the time you get to it - 6-7 hours later! EWWWWWWW! 😖

/Our milk is delivered about 1am too. We have a large picnic cool box for year round use, in the summer just pop a few ice cube stone things to keep the inside of the box cool for as log as possible. It's good enough even in to 30C plus weather if you aren't leaving out until 1pm (which I have done occasionally) even then it's OK but could easily turn

Ours comes before 12. If I hear him I will get it in. DD often got it in in the summer as her room is downstairs so she'd see the headlights.

Milkmen always did early deliveries. Nothing will go ”off” before the morning.

Our next door neighbour used to get a delivery at around three am. Woke me up. He wasn't quiet.

That's normal. We've been getting milk delivered since before Covid, though we've since changed to a local dairy farm.
Glass bottles so no plastic, really nice milk & always have it in. If we need more we can go to the farm & use the vending machine.
I think ours comes around 2am but does vary. Very quiet - usually the only noise is the odd clink of a bottle.

We have someone at the far end of the road who gets it and it's very annoying as our road is so tricky to drive down when there's cars parked both sides of the road.

You don't have to remember to buy it but yeah it's a bit annoying as you do have to think when you'll need milk and work out your consumption rate. I've gone off milk since I thought about the male calfs but if I find one that does oat milk delivery I'm tempted

We get milk delivered at that time. But we are up at 7 and it sits inside our porch so would never be in sunlight if in summer.

Only complaint is that it isn’t an electric vehicle, just an ordinary transit. So does make some noise but the delivery person is always quiet when coming up the drive, using the porch doors.

Can’t have it all!

Get a cool box for them to leave it in.

Ours delivers at 9pm the night before. It means we can put it in the fridge before we go to bed

Probably the same company we use. They come between 12.30-1 am. It suits us as DH is retired and waits up but if it was outside all night especially in summer I think I'd find an alternative.
I suspect the problem is that they have to cover a big area so they need to start very early to get done by 7am.

It's fine. I've been having deliveries for a decade and only in a heatwave can the milk go off. I can see what time the milkman arrives through my ring doorbell.
I don't have a coolbox.

We stopped our milk delivery because it kept going missing. No idea what time the man was delivering but by 6am the milk was not there.