Money Moral Dilemma: Should I drink the milk?

Augustus_the_Strong

Just leave it on the doorstep or at the boundary of your land, whichever is further away, with a note saying NO MILK THANK YOU. Don't get pressed into taking things you don't want.

morg_monster

Cimscate wrote: »

Bit disappointed with this weeks problem, does it really matter inthe scheme of things, let's have something with a bit more meat to it......

Agree, this is soooo lame... Must be the slow season! Next week it'll be "I bought a mars bar in a shop a few miles from home, and when I got home realised they'd given me 5p extra change. As I'm extremely hard up I put it in my piggy bank. Now the shop has gone bust and closed down and I'm having sleepless nights worrying that its all down to me. What should I do?"
(not dissing the original person who's dilemma it was, but in the whole scheme of things its so unimportant - and surely the person decided what to do with the milk well before the email went around, so all the advice is fairly useless)

Martin - if you don't have any good "real life" dilemmas why don't you go back to making them up? They were much better!

abigailsrevenge

We had a similar issue with a milkman trying to start a new round in our area - he knocked and asked if we would like milk delivered, I said no. He then delivered milk the next day - when I rang they said that they would deliver free milk (!) for a week (or it may have been 2) because quite often people found it so convenient they then booked deliveries!

I made sure he knew I wasn't going to sign up, enjoyed the free milk and never heard from him again!

Cloudane

Regardless of the actual legal aspects I'd just leave it there and keep trying (try the phone again, try leaving a note, try a letter). That way there can be no argument from them about whether you 'accepted' the milk if you took it in and drank it.

At least until it goes off. At which point you can probably safely say you considered it a biohazard and it's been binned on health and safety grounds.

As for Betterware catalogues, they don't seem to take "please take us off the delivery list" for an answer, nor do they take the catalogue left repeatedly in the rain as a hint after that. Even if they tell you off for leaving it in the rain and you respond with "well stop sending me them then". What does seem to work is a sign on the letterbox saying "No circulars, free newspapers, leaflets, unsolicited catalogues or unsolicited mail"

Aldahbra

carrotmuseum wrote: »

Either charge them for storage or threaten to go and pour it pack through their letter box, then do so!

Why get so aggressive about it? Some poor guy just starting out has probably left it there by mistake. Why not just tell them they've delivered it by mistake, drink the milk and enjoy it?

epm-84

"4 litres of milk"

Who'd have a big enough bladder to drink all that or big enough fridge for that much extra milk? 4 litres is almost 8 pints!

A.Jones

I wouldn't drink it. I'd make rice pudding instead.

[Deleted User]

Wow. What a dilemma. Let's examine our options -

1. Legal action. Charge the milkman with trespassing, littering and unsolicated selling. Take him for every penny he has.
2. The compassionate stance - carefully package the bottles up in a cool bag or ice box and transport them safely to the milkman at your own expense and time. Ensure they are returned safely and have a 30 minute discussion regarding the pros and cons of doorstep deliveries. Shake hands and leave in a merry fashion
3. Direct action - take the bottles round to his house, hurl them through the bedroom window, shout "Milk?! I'll give you milk, you shiftless timewaster!"
4. Realize it's only milk for heaven's sake and get a life.

Yes - I think I'd do 4.

Candice-Marie

dan_m2k wrote: »

TBH, I'd love to get fresh milk on my doorstep, even at a premium for convenience/quality. However, my 2p: the very nature of this thread - that they can't even get deliveries right, let alone accurately collecting payment for aforesaid milk, is what killed off the doorstep delivery business, and I don't like the modern attempts to revitalise it by entering into long milk delivery contracts so will be giving them a miss!

As I say though, if a milkman turned up at my door with a couple of bottles of silver-top whenever I asked him to do so, and he took payment in a reliable and convenient way, I'd certainly support my local dairy farmers.

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Dan - try milk&more - I think Dairy Crest are behind it. No contract, not even regular orders needed, do it all online and as someone else said more than milk available. You can order up to 9pm the night before. It's 100% hassle-free.

And with this dilemma, I'd check it's not for the neighbours, then drink it/use it with a clear conscience.

lisawood78

This happened to me.
There was 4 pints of milk, 2 pks of cheese, tea bags, kids yoghurt things, one of those cool bag things they use to put the milk in and bizarrely a bag of compost on my doorstep one morning.
Now I phoned the company who delivered this (name was on the cool bag) and they said oh how odd, i'll get the man to come back and get it all. So I put it in the fridge to save it from going off. 2 days later I called again as they had not been, once more they said oh we'll come and get it. They didn't, so it got used, and we never heard from them again.