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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To expext my milkman to deliver the milk...

22 replies

madmuggle · 21/04/2008 22:46

...before eight thirty in the morning?

Our old milkman has retired, and the chap who has taken over the round has yet to deliver a bottle of milk before I leave the house on a weekday. I leave no later than twenty to nine (bad day scenario, usually with either toast or cereal bar in hand) but there is never a bottle of milk on my doorstep. I stay out most days, with a child not old enough for school I have a hectic round of stuff-to-do that occupies my time.

Am I being unreasonable to expect my milk to arrive at a sensible hour so it can be put in the fridge rather han poured down the sink as I get home?

It's not as if the hours are a shock to a potential milkman is it? And the chap had a month on the job with the retired chap, getting used to the round and so on.

I'm a bit annoyed. I pay for milk to be delivered, yet end up throwing all bar the saturday pints away and buying fresh in.

I'm tempted to cancel the delivery

OP posts:

maidamess · 21/04/2008 22:47

Cancel it! Or leave a cool box out there.

thisisyesterday · 21/04/2008 22:50

I would ring the company who delivers and ask them whether they know this is happening,
I'd imagine that a lot of people are in the same situation as yoiu, and they're going to lose a lot of customers if he doesn't deliver it early enough

lemonstartree · 21/04/2008 22:51

waste of time really! no YANBU. Our problem exactly. so buy milk from ocado!

wingandprayer · 21/04/2008 22:59

Why are you pouring it down the sink when you get home? Fresh milk should easily survive being outside for 8 hours, especially at this time of year (unless of course you live somewhere far sunnier than I do!)

Ours lasts a good 3/4 days from delivery, and so it should if it's fresh out of the cow!!!

Sorry, I know that's kind of missing the point. And regarding your OP YANBU. I have a postman who does similar. I live in a city centre, he parks his car outside my house while he delivers everyone else's mail, yet I get mine at earliest at 10.30 and run a home business so often need stuff earlier. Drives me mental.

giraffeski · 21/04/2008 23:01

Message withdrawn

policywonk · 21/04/2008 23:05

Ours gets delivered at around 8.45. I agree it's annoying (I actually cancelled today's order because it hadn't turned up by 9am, so I went to the shop to buy some instead and left a huffy note).

However, I remember reading somewhere a while back that so few people have milk deliveries now that most milkmen (milkpeople?) have to cover very large areas on their rounds to make it economical, so it's just not possible for them to get to everyone early in the morning.

Psychomum5 · 21/04/2008 23:09

ours comes at 10.30am

I would in fact cancel if I wasnt at home most days, and in all honesty we always have a running surpless so never in dire need, but still, tis unreasonable as when I was a child it would be there when we woke up....in fact, in the summer I remember waking up to the clatter at 4am.....so this late, regardless of size of area, YANBU!!!

Flynnie · 21/04/2008 23:10

had to cancel my order as it never came before 2pm!
And £20 for a fortnights worth is too expensive imo, esp as I still had to buy extra from the shops.

Flamesparrow · 21/04/2008 23:21

Is it wrong to be smug that ours always came before 7am when we had onea few months back?

policywonk · 21/04/2008 23:23

There's obviously one milkman, one electric cart and one giant nationwide round, and flamesparrow is at the beginning.

terramum · 21/04/2008 23:23

YANBU

Our milkman actually lives on the same road as us & is a star...delivers at about 2am so no matter how early we get up we laways have our milk

TsarChasm · 21/04/2008 23:27

I cancelled mine too. I got talked into having the milk delivered but he kept forgetting and it then it was turning up at odd times. I kept ringing the dairy and it was always 'on it's way'. I stopped it and the milkman got all shirty with me

jellycat · 21/04/2008 23:31

I cancelled ours years ago because of this problem. The dairy had just been bought out by another and the 2 rounds were combined into 1 very large round. The delivey time changed from 8am ish to about lunchtime, hours after dh and I had left for work. To add to the problem he reduced the number of days he delivered to us to 3 per week which meant that he would leave several pints on the doorstep (too many to fit into our cool box). The result was that by the time we came to drink the 3rd or 4th pint of the delivery it had gone off. So I switched to supermarket milk. I only buy it once or twice a week as it keeps well.

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madmuggle · 21/04/2008 23:46

I think I may have to just bite the bullet. I don't mind paying the inflated price for delivered milk if it's going to be there when I need it. I can get milk much cheaper locally though, so I can put some more pennies into my 'madmuggle wants a Wii!' jar.

Thanks for the ramble, 'tis appreciated

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MsPontipine · 22/04/2008 00:08

Sack him!! Why pay twice the price for somwthing you're not happy with? I had one for a while - liked the idea - greener, local, traditional etc but he used to deliver way too early - didn't like the thought of milk stood out for so long and I couldn't see the use by date - there is one on the lid apparently but very very feint then when did see it it was only only couple of days left. Rather stock up in Supermarket where clear dates can be up to 2 weeks, cheaper and from fridge to fridge within an hour - and birds haven't pecked at it!

nappyaddict · 22/04/2008 02:41

we get ours at 3am. i have often bumped into the milkman whilst drunkenly fumbling in my bag and trying to put my key in the lock!!

wingandprayer · 22/04/2008 09:18

Sell by dates? Why do you need sell by dates on something which has one very clear indicator that it's still fresh - er, the bloody awful smell if it's not?

Still don't understand the paranoia about milk and the evils that apparently lurk within. Did I miss some scientific report somewhere?

monkeymagic · 22/04/2008 09:36

Ours comes at 3am. Although it's dearer than supermarket milk, I still think it saves you money. After all, who ever comes back with just a pint of milk when you pop to the shops? That's why it's a loss leader for supermarkets, so they can get you in the door to buy other stuff.

bozza · 22/04/2008 09:44

MsP how could he deliver too early?

Ours is always on the doorstep when we come home. I have to confess to having returned from a night out and taken the milk in with me. However they have cut down to four deliveries a week for economic reasons, but as I only have a pint a day it doesn't really bother me. Just get two pints on the days when there is not a delivery next day.

Beelliesebub · 22/04/2008 10:19

If you pay for a service and it's not what you expect then I think you should cancel it too....

Flamesparrow · 22/04/2008 12:28

I miss having a milkman - we were getting our potatoes from him too. But needed to do a big strict budget thing and it had to go

MsPontipine · 22/04/2008 13:05

3 o'clock in the morning - it was in the summer so already getting light - even if get it at 7 it had sat on an (often sunny) spot for 4 hours. That's why we have fridges. As for dates - who wants to be waking up with children with the reassurance there's one lovely bottle of milk left for breakfast only to find it's gone off. I want fresh milk - not 2 week old milk.

However monkeymagic totally agree with you - that's why I also prefer Ikea on-line- buy one much needed item rather than spend £200 on nothing!!

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