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.

Also supporting a small business.

We get ours delivered around 4-5am. Milk bread eggs orange juice. We hardly ever hear him and he leaves them in the porch so has to open the door he's like the stealth milkman! One time I was downstairs with newborn and heard him and opened the door for him poor man looked terrified 🤣

And ours is local, literally the farm at the top of the village!

Less heavy, I prefer it, my only prévision was before 4.30am, as I often left for work then.
No more and no noise, unlike my previous neighbours, luckily gone

No idea what time mine arrives but it saves me a fortune by reducing the number of times I pop to the shop for a pint of milk and come back with half the shop.

Our milkman delivers between midnight & 1am - if we're still up & hear him (rarely) we bring it in then.
Even the national chains get their milk from local farms - several around us supply Milk & More.
Sorry YABU - it's convenient, local & more eco friendly than dozens of plastic bottles.
Maybe you should get milk from them too? Then Ayr least you'll be woken & can bring it in?

You probably ARE being unreasonable, but I do agree. I live at the entrance of a little cobbled cul de sac. It’s on a weird slope, so the road goes right past my upstairs bedroom window. I’m wakened by the milk bottles crashing together as the milkman takes the cobbles at full speed (possibly not that fast, but it sounds it), then I have to try to stay awake until he comes back and repeats the cacophony on the return trip.

I do really agree with glass milk bottles, but I hate my 3am alarm call.

Ours also has a knackered old diesel, slams doors, scorts around on the gravel drives at silly am. PILs use them and more often than not the milk in their tea is soured.

I find our neighbour’s milk delivery infuriating. Even with a so called silent milk float in summer months, the 3am braking and clink of bottles wakes me and I get honestly angry as surely people generally deserve the chance of a fecking decent sleep. In the winter, the float is abandoned for a car, which I spent months thinking was a nightly drug drop. Again, they are the only 2 of about 50 houses. They walk to Sainsbury's daily so just unnecessary.

Mine delivered at 1am, which was not a problem as I was sound asleep and never knew what time he came. Our deliveries are always to the back of our house to the kitchen door.

What scared the fuckity fuck out of me was a night when I was sleepless and was sitting in the sitting room when figure with a glowing head suddenly appeared and advanced through the pitch dark toward the house.

Following my near cardiac arrest I realised the milky also wore a head torch.

We get oat milk in glass bottles, orange juice ditto, and washing up liquid, hand wash, laundry liquid all in glass bottles and refillable. Eggs and fresh sourdough bread every Saturday.

They are delivered by van at about 1am. We can hear the clinking of the bottles but most of the neighbours get deliveries from one milkman or another so nobody minds.

When I was a kid, this was usual. Everyone had milk delivered. I used to find it soothing, no-one complained.

@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.

The one near us is like this, slamming the doors, rattling the empty bottles they collect and chatting to each other it's really put me off ordering I don't want them even closer to my door

Our upstairs neighbour gets theirs delivered around 2am twice a week. The milkman obviously leaves it in the stairwell right on the other side of our bedroom wall where our headboard is. It’s surprising how loud clinking bottles can be at that time.

They are delivered by van at about 1am. We can hear the clinking of the bottles but most of the neighbours get deliveries from one milkman or another so nobody minds.

You get a series of different clinky van drivers delivering organic glass bottles of this and that to various people on your street all through the sodding night? I'm very grateful that our neighbours are firmly ethically committed to single-use plastic from Tesco

I used to have this, diesel vehicle, slamming doors exactly 3.15 am every morning 🥱 feel for you

@sweeneytoddsrazor

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

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Yanbu. I am very often woken up by my neighbour's milk delivery. It is about 3am. There are no electric floats any more (it seems) and there are two people on our milk round who take the opportunity when they are outside my neighbour's house to re-arrrange their crates and have quite loud conversations shouting over the noise of the running engine. Really inconsiderate and I can be awake for hours afterwards.

Some of our neighbours have milk delivered by a bastard milkman in his bastard diesel van who chooses to have his bastard break outside our house for about 10-15 minutes at 3.30am. I wish him ill.

I disagree with everyone. Irrespective of what's being delivered, milk or not, it's not even early morning. What time do many people get up, say 7am? Early morning may be 6am. 3am is the middle of the night. I don't want to me woken up in the middle of the night. For any reason.

Some of your neighbours may be disabled and would love to be able to pay the cheaper supermarket prices. It’s one of the things that PiP is to help with, where the same thing costs mor, milk, pre-chopped veg etc.

There are no electric floats any more (it seem)

It certainly seems that this is the reality. If they were driving electric floats then the biggest problem would be eliminated immediately.

Thanks for this thread OP it's just reminded me to do my order for tomorrow!

I cancelled our milkman because of this. He used to hurtle into our close, which is 5 houses around a gravel area with gravel drives, slam his brakes on so he slid on the gravel, heavy rock music blasting out. Then loads of door slamming and loud phone conversations shouted over the music for 10 mins under my window, before doing what sounded like a handbrake turn on the gravel to get out of the close. Bastard.

We cancelled our milk delivery about 27 years ago. He never came before breakfast (6am), which had been promised, and the final straw was when I had to drag my year old twins up the shop to get milk for their late morning bottles!

@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!

Glass bottles take a lot of energy to produce in the first place and more to clean and sterilise for subsequent uses, along with the machines to inspect them for cracks and chips etc. There is also the collection and weight of transporting them.

I do wonder what the total cost is of the life of a reused glass bottle is versus a recycled plastic bottle.