Very early milk delivery

[FairlyOddmother]

We get milk delivered on a Tuesday and Friday morning. I went to put out the empties at about 11:45pm today (Thursday) and the milk has already been delivered!? Is this normal? I don't normally check the doorstep until the morning. I usually put the empties out earlier but forgot today.

Get an insulated milk caddy/box. Stops it freeIng in the winter too

Yes I cancelled the milk because they started delivering at around 12.......it basically woke me up with the van and coming up our gravel drive. For years the previous milkman had delivered around 6 -7 which was fab

When I worked on a dairy farm in the early seventies our milk was simply cooled and bottled . It could be on local doorsteps within couple of hours of milking.

When we had milk delivered when I lived with my family our milk lady delivered around 3am. The poor woman was just walking up our drive with our delivery when the door opens and the undertakers come out with my mum who had died a couple of hours earlier (she’d been ill a while). She was so upset I had to make her a cup of tea - she used to swap plant cuttings with my mum.
Where I live now the milkman comes around 8am.

I ended up cancelling my milkman as he used the most knackered clapped-out van I'd ever seen/heard to deliver anytime between 10pm and 3am - not only did the milk then have a very short shelf life due to being outside in the summer for hours, but he used to wake me (and undoubtedly my neighbours) up in the middle of the night 3 times a week.

@BooseysMom

We stopped having milk deliveries as they kept forgetting to deliver it! But when they did manage to remember, the milkman came at 3am. If they're delivering that early in the night, when are the cows milked?! I always used to ponder upon that! I would have thought and hoped they were milked in the early morning and then that is the milk you get on your doorstep. Any earlier and it's the previous day's.

This is delightful.

When are the cows milked? They're milked multiple times a day every day. Milk production is stimulation dependent. Most cows are milked two or three times a day, but if they have a robotic milking system, cows tend to choose to be milked more often.

Then the milk is all collected, often sucked into vacuum tankers and transported to whichever company pasteurises and uses/sells it. If it's a local farm and they pasteurise their own, it still won't be milked, pasteurised, bottled and whisked to your doorstep within a few hours.

I'm wondering if you imagined them being milked by hand into the glass bottles.

I'm wondering if you imagined them being milked by hand into the glass bottles.

by rosy-cheeked milkmaids sitting on three-legged stools.

Ours arrives at around 1-2 am - if I’m up in the night I often hear the chink of the glass bottles. It’s never been ‘off’.

They started nighttime deliveries IIRC because with so many more women going to work, the milk would otherwise be sitting on the doorstep all day, and in warmer weather would def. go off. So people stopped having the milkman altogether.

I recently saw a job ad by a local milkman requiring a new staff member. Working hours were 10pm to 7am.

I stopped having it delivered as it kept getting pinched.

Our milk is usually delivered at about 8pm the previous night. It comes from a farm 3 miles away and is delivered in the evening after the afternoon milking. Couldn’t get fresher! Love it.

@BikeRunSki

Our milk is usually delivered at about 8pm the previous night. It comes from a farm 3 miles away and is delivered in the evening after the afternoon milking. Couldn’t get fresher! Love it.

Forgot to say, it’s pasteurised and bottled on site.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

Ours arrives at around 1-2 am - if I’m up in the night I often hear the chink of the glass bottles. It’s never been ‘off’.

They started nighttime deliveries IIRC because with so many more women going to work, the milk would otherwise be sitting on the doorstep all day, and in warmer weather would def. go off. So people stopped having the milkman altogether.

Because presumably if a man tried to pick up the milk, his cock might fall off?

Should have been a after that.

"Because presumably if a man tried to pick up the milk, his cock might fall off?"

No, because the whole household would be gone for the day before the milkman turned up.

I know that. I was being facetious

My DB works on a dairy farm. He’s 6ft and “bulky”. He often has rosy cheeks though

Our milk gets delivered around 5am. Very reliable even in lockdown! We also get bread eggs and orange juice from them. We also get a Christmas card 😁

If youre at the start of the round its normal...... Someome has to be first andthey have to get round hundreds of people. Where I am most people put out a gel filled cool bag for them. We bought one off him I think it was around £5 and we just keep it in the freezer between uses.

Ours runs a bit like milk and more and sells allsorts from local farms so its well worth supporting. They pay their staff well above minimum wage too so again it gets my support.

I'm the funny quaint PP who posted about not realising the milk is the previous day's or even older! I am indeed a country bumpkin! Well I was born on a farm but sadly had to leave. I remember the Jersey we had called Ermintrude. We milked her daily and we used to drink it unpasteurised. (The cat literally got the cream!) You wouldn't do that now.
Others here have commented that the milk they have delivered comes from a local dairy and you couldn't get fresher. We are in the Midlands and the dairy we used delivered bottles that had turned sour so def not fresh!! We cancelled it in the end. I do miss having glass bottles though.

@BooseysMom

I'm the funny quaint PP who posted about not realising the milk is the previous day's or even older! I am indeed a country bumpkin! Well I was born on a farm but sadly had to leave. I remember the Jersey we had called Ermintrude. We milked her daily and we used to drink it unpasteurised. (The cat literally got the cream!) You wouldn't do that now. Others here have commented that the milk they have delivered comes from a local dairy and you couldn't get fresher. We are in the Midlands and the dairy we used delivered bottles that had turned sour so def not fresh!! We cancelled it in the end. I do miss having glass bottles though.

When I was in my early teens I stayed with a friend who lived on a farm. I remember having milk which had just come from the cow - it blew my mind!

@BooseysMom

I'm the funny quaint PP who posted about not realising the milk is the previous day's or even older! I am indeed a country bumpkin! Well I was born on a farm but sadly had to leave. I remember the Jersey we had called Ermintrude. We milked her daily and we used to drink it unpasteurised. (The cat literally got the cream!) You wouldn't do that now. Others here have commented that the milk they have delivered comes from a local dairy and you couldn't get fresher. We are in the Midlands and the dairy we used delivered bottles that had turned sour so def not fresh!! We cancelled it in the end. I do miss having glass bottles though.

Oh lovely @BooseysMom! Sorry for calling you quaint I just thought your post was so charming

Yeah sorry, I still think you are quaint but in a really charming way!

@Sparklfairy.. ah, no need to apologise! But thank you. I think it's nice being seen as quaint!.

@Pythonista... I suppose I am very Pam Eyres! (A younger version!)

Exactly though, there's nothing like actually milking a cow and then drinking the milk. It is literally mind blowing! I only wish DS could have experienced it.