just out of interest......(re milk delivery).....

[bitofcheese]

i was wondering what time those of you who got milk delivered got their milk delivered? we used to buy at supermarket but milkman knocked on our door a few years ago and asked if we wanted him to deliver, support your local business and all' that so we said yes. it used to get delivered at around 5am (i go to work about this time so would always see delivery around this time) BUT they have sold business to a different person and now it gets delivered around 9:45am....which is a bit late for breakfast so defeats the object. just wondered really (don't know if i should cancel and go back to supermarket or say anything, i don't like to be confrontational/say anything although might...)

Ours is about 4.30am (DH once was working odd shifts and so was awake for it to be delivered) but I notice our neighbours, who get it from a different supplier, have their milk delivered while I'm having breakfast at 8.30am.

My family is made up mostly of milk people (male and female) and they all deliver at different times. My uncle goes out at 2am and is finished for 7am and back in bed by 9am. My sister and bil don't go out until 6.00 and finish about 10am - they each have their own rounds. The difference is my uncle just has a milk round but my sis and bil have to milk the cows and do other urgent farm stuff before delivering, and also have no chance of going back to bed. Milk delivery is increasing round here - they've just taken on an employee to make it three rounds.

As it is an ancient farming family they actually have the keys to lots of houses and put the milk in the fridge for them if they are out.

we had milk and more for a while. It came at around 8.30 so we only got it on weekends. We had fruit juice and eggs as well. However they kept delivering stuff which went out of date the next day, so we cancelled in the end. Shame really as it is so convenient in theory.

we had the same. paid over the odds for milk to support the local business. after a few months, it started arriving after we had left the house. i never knew if it was going to be there, so ended up having to go out last thing at night to buy milk for the morning, just in case.

i wrote them a letter saying that i was cancelling because of it, but should they ever be in a position to offer the service i needed, to get in touch.

milk is still delivered, now its once a week by ocado.

6-7am normally here, but sometimes earlier, especially if the weather forecast is bad. one night, just before a dump of snow, they delivered at 9pm the previous day. did no delivery the 1st day of snow ( having done them already IYSWIM) then were out again on day two with a single landrover, took them all day to cover the three local routes, but they did and were heartily thanked by a snowed in village.

I work nights and ours comes at about 3am
Milk and more

Yeah, about 6am here and any later would be no good for that morning. 9.45 too late if you have to go to work but if you're in could you take it for the next morning, so you're a day ahead iyswim?

About 3.15 am

Our milkman is lovely and can tell us about the farm where our milk comes from and it always has a longer use by date than the supermarket too.

Don't know why you needed to know that but I just wanted to say

Sunshine it will have a longer life if it has come straight from the farm to the milkman, bypassing the big dairy. Farm fresh milk is just that - bottled the day before. Big dairy/supermarket milk is collected when the tank is full and then has lots of processes to go through before arriving home.

I had a very similar situation to the OP. Milk was originally delivered around 6, but suddenly it around 9. No good for us, we were both out to work by then. I did ask the milkman, it turned out that the round time had been changed at the request of other customers. I live near the town centre, and many of his customers were offices - he'd had complaints that the milk had been stolen from the doorsteps before anyone had turned up for work. They were bigger customers than my measly one pint a day, so it wasn't going to change. I cancelled.

tbh it is only a pain when we have run out of milk the night before and are thus reliant on it (dh more than me as i am often out working when he is getting up). i will leave it for now and only cancel if dh gets really fed up with it. thanks for all your responses. i know it must be hard getting up early and doing your rounds which i guess is why in part i feel too guilty asking for him to get out of bed earlier and deliver whilst (as he would think) i am lying in bed fast asleep which isn't the case, i am usually trailing around a muddy field in the pouring rain or stuck on the M25 in a tail back at junction 21 :D

Someone else might have a round that suits you better. Ask around. I drove for my sister's round when she had an operation on her elbow and my god it nearly killed me doing that at 5 am then going to work, and that was only for a week.

As WYLI said, early deliveries are at risk of being stolen, unless you live in a very naice area. :)

Used to use milk and more but the delivery rarely arrived before midday! What use is that?

i understand about the stealing thing. i live in a very suburban area, full of residential streets, nice enough (area), the only people i can imagine pinching the milk delivered early from doorsteps would be the sods creeping up and down at 4am in a van looking to half inch' things from peoples front gardens, guess it must be thirsty work :)

Back home the delivery used to be around 5am, then started creeping later and later until it started coming at 11am, then sitting there all day to either go off in the sun or be pecked at by birds.

Round here the mikman comes at 11pm. PM! I'm usually still up and only just starting to think about going to bed when the milk float comes trundling round to drop off to them over the road.

I would let them know that you're thinking of cancelling and give them the opportunity to keep your custom.

My mum's milk was delivered at 5am - suddenly stopped arriving - turned out the council had moved a 60 yr old heroin addict into the village and she went round at 5am stealing all the milk

We cancelled when the milk started getting delivered later. DH and I were both out of the house by the time it was delivered, so it sat there until one of us got home. We cancelled almost immediately, as it made no sense to a) have it sat in the sun, b) advertise the fact that the house was empty and c) risk having someone pinch the milk.

I called the office first and explained the problem, but they weren't interested. Didn't feel guilty at all.

Ours comes around 7am which is just perfect for us.

It's really handy if I've run out of bread, eggs or juice too cos he sells all of that.

I think the problem may be the distinction between big dairies and their employees and individuals running their own rounds.

4.30am - I used to look out for him when I was up with DD when she was a baby . We get bread & eggs too, which is convenient. The supermarket is cheaper, but it's handy to always have milk in.

I quite like lying in bed and hearing the whirr of the milkfloat, makes bed seem all the more cosy!

emsyj I thought it was just me who felt like that about the whirr of the milkfloat

ems, i know what you mean. i used to live in a flat that was above a market. in the winter especially there was always something really snug about being tucked up in bed and hearing the barrow boys outside moving the market stalls around at 4am :) , i find the same feeling about the milk float although i am usually up at the same time getting ready to go out, not so snug..

Ours arrives at 11.30/midnight! So we bring it in before we go to bed. It's a local organic dairy farm and they are fab. They also provide an insulated box to leave the milk in to keep it cool. I wouldn't want it arriving after breakfast time.

This happened to us - deliveries getting later and later, and nowadays I leave the house at around 7-7:15am so there's even less time for an early delivery window. We have switched to another local milkman who delivers between 6pm-8pm which is loads better!