to find Neighbour's 3am Milk delivery annoying?

[Yamyam13]

TBH I do actually think I am being unreasonable 😂 but basically just want to rant about being woken up at 3am because of just 2 neighbours on our street (out of 50) who get milk delivered.
Especially as where we live there are 2 well
Known supermarkets within a minutes walk AND a 24 hour shop.

I don't think I'm your neighbour but my milkman is quite quiet. If I'm up and about that late I might hear a gentle chink of him picking up my empties and putting the new ones down. No door slamming and I think it's an electric vehicle.

For me it's one less thing to think about. They also deliver bread, meat, eggs, biscuits, even vegetarian sausages - all sorts of random stuff and sometimes I've made use of that, particularly during the early stages of lockdown when supermarket delivery slots were thin on the ground.

I'd suggest having a word, either with neighbour or with MilkCo. I'm sure they wouldn't want to risk a delivery slot going because it's disturbing the neighbours. Good luck :)

Jo

I, along with quite a lot of our neighbours, get my milk delivered. I used to get woken up at 2am most nights as he roared around in a diesel truck making a racquet, Thankfully he has now switched to an electric milk float and I rarely hear him anymore.

@Greatoutdoors

I love hearing the milkman at 3am. I find it really soothing. Besides, it’s better for the environment and the local community to buy local in glass bottles. YABU

Same here! I love to hear him. All my neighbours have joined in and get milk delivered. I don't want to support supermarkets any more. I love getting organic milk and supporting this lovely family business.

I think the correct way to deal with unwanted milkmen is to throw stale pork pie crusts and rock cakes at them..

I don't think I've ever been woken up by a milkman but honestly this is a you problem. It's a perfectly reasonably thing getting a milk delivery, irrelevant whether there's a shop nearby

Why does milk get delivered in the middle of the night?

Milk used to be delivered just before breakfast in the good old days. Gave you a chance to take it in before the birds got to it!

Couple of years ago, the neighbours used to have milk delivered by 2 men in an electric cart.. They made no noise delivering, then sat in the van chatting for half an hour - sounded enough like R4 to wake me every time.

Ours comes on an electric milk van so it's pretty much silent. If you are already awake you can hear is faintly, most of the road use them.

@BanjoKnickers

Why does milk get delivered in the middle of the night?

Because it is cooler and so it's there at the crack of dawn for breakfast.

It's the only time they can really guarantee that someone will take it in before it goes off or gets nicked.

Of COURSE YANBU. That is hellishly early. Then again (weirdly,) I think I would find it easier to get back to sleep at 3am, than I would if it was 6.30am. Mainly because it's still proper dark, and halfway through the night. It's light at 6.30am, and I'd only be an hour and a half from my wake-up time anyway!

They may have their reasons. We have organic milk in glass bottles and other supplies delivered. This is because as a single parent working full time I need to be as organised as possible and my children hate being dragged to the shops.

So if more than 2 neighbours has it delivered then what?

You know YABU.

YANBU, Tesco delivery is much more civilised (and in suspect monumentally cheaper)

@Tiredoftiers

I’m with you, they turn up in a diesel flat bed opening and slamming doors. They do two houses so two folk get out. Could not work out why my husband and I were waking every single night at 0400 initially. No issue if they used an electric milk float with no doors.

This. And then because there are no streetlights, they start swinging a great big torch around which shines through the bedroom window. No need for them in this day and age.

@Greatoutdoors

Is it better for the environment us they are delivering in a diesel truck to only one or two houses per road? Back when it was a milk float delivering to most houses it would have been more environmentally friendly but .... diesel not good

Well we get our first milk delivery on Thursday so my neighbours may end up like you. Milk should cost more than it does in the supermarket. It’s stupidly cheap so we have chosen to buy in a way that puts more money in the farmer’s pocket.

A milk float comes down our road at 3. I only hear it if I go to bed too early. Usually I’m not in bed till past midnight then nothing wakes me.

"I agree, I don't think many of them are actually local businesses any more. The vast majority will be using a big business like milk and more."

There are a couple of larger chains that deliver milk locally to me but the one we use is a local business. The dairy is in the next small town along from us.

While there are certainly larger chains out there there are some local ones too.

I had milk deliveries about 5 years ago, but they weren't local, were very expensive and were unreliable, so I cancelled after 18 months. At the start of lockdown I found a local firm who deliver milk and eggs, very reliable, and reasonable price. I also arranged online shopping as I am clinically vulnerable, and my mobility is not good, although I do go in shops occasionally now, my life is so much easier! I am sorry if you are disturbed so early, but that's life.......get earplugs

Good on your neighbours - supporting local businesses and jobs.

I used to plot the death of my neighbour's milkman. He'd not just arrive in his noisy diesel at 2.45am - but it was his "break time" and he'd sit in his van, engine running, outside my house for TWENTY MINUTES EVERY NIGHT. Colin, his name was, I looked it up on Milk&More. We used to joke the "more" was why he was outside our neighbour's for 20 minutes every delivery but he was always in the noisy van with the engine running so no, he was just trying to make our lives hell. Any environmental advantage to the glass bottles was lost on his bloody engine fumes.

I used to have a milk and more delivery... he'd arrive between 1130- midnight and we'd be none the wiser. Never started it up again when I moved - just wasn't a priority but I noticed our neighbours had milk delivered this morning and didn't notice (bedroom isn't street side)

Hope it gets quieter OP !

@3totheright4totheleft

Surely the point of milk deliveries is that you DON'T use plastic as the glass ones get recycled! I don't think it's your neighbours' faults for trying to be more eco-friendly!

Yes exactly this!

@FromOurHatsToOurFeet

I used to plot the death of my neighbour's milkman. He'd not just arrive in his noisy diesel at 2.45am - but it was his "break time" and he'd sit in his van, engine running, outside my house for TWENTY MINUTES EVERY NIGHT. Colin, his name was, I looked it up on Milk&More. We used to joke the "more" was why he was outside our neighbour's for 20 minutes every delivery but he was always in the noisy van with the engine running so no, he was just trying to make our lives hell. Any environmental advantage to the glass bottles was lost on his bloody engine fumes.

Owww I wonder if it's Colin who delivers here. He has a habit of leaving the van running for anything between 5-15 minutes and arrives around 2.35-2.45am. Maybe that's why it's so irritating as it's the time the delivery drivers take their break.

Our neighbours get theirs delivered, not every night thankfully. Electric milk float, national company not local... wakes our dog up 3 nights a week. Every bloody week. 3.30am bark bark bark.