Money Moral Dilemma: Should I drink the milk?

persian_star

I agree that you should use it under a clear conscience, it definitely sounds like unsolicited goods in the strictly legal sense and I doubt they'll want them back (as in it would cost them more to follow up trying to retrieve them). As we have a former milklad in the postees I would guess his opinion is probably the most reliable!

I have to admit having my milk delivered is one of my two luxuries (Radio Times delivered is sadly the other!) but I love the knowledge that 3 times a week I have glass bottles of milk waiting for me on my doorstep. It is a little more expensive than the store but as has been said, I dislike the mounting plastic bottles and this allows me to not go to the supermarket for a couple of weeks, stopping me from spending unnecessarily and probably saving me money! I use milkandmore.co.uk too - they check if they can deliver to you and if they can there's a whole plethora of fresh foods (and often deals and offers) that you can order/cancel up to 9pm the night before. I have a recurring milk order and cancel odd bottles/add 'once only' things regularly, then pay by DD once a month - it normally costs between £15 and £20 a month. They very rarely make mistakes (with us only a bit right at the beginning before the web service was set up). Much better than spending petrol to lug milk home from the store! Shimples

pennypinchUK

With the greatest of respect, who cares? Whether to drink 4 litres of milk or not isn't the greatest of moral dilemmas. You've told the company you're not interested in having milk delivered, and you've phoned them in an attempt to let them know, so you've done everything that's reasonable. Treat it either as one of life's up-sides or throw it down the sink. Toss a coin if you must....

davemere

Take it in and drink it. If there is any further contact tell them you threw it away. Don't pay for a thing. If they bring round more milk uninvited, drink that too and say the same thing. Hopefully this will carry on forever and you'll never need buy milk again.

Why not? They're either trying to trick/force you into buying from them, or they're so stupid that they can't run their business properly. Which one is it? Who cares?! Just scoff the milk.

A few weaks ago a bloke knocked to try and talk me into having my milk delivered. Even though I said no, today there were 4 litres on my doorstep. I've rung them, in case its on the wrong doorstep but no answer. In the heat it's obviously going to go off, so should I use it myself or leave it in case they call?

digitig

Candice-Marie wrote: »

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.

I stopped getting milk from Dairy Crest because it was anything but hassle free. They were constantly getting the bills wrong, billing for milk that they hadn't delivered. I contacted them whenever it happened, and they always said "ok, we'll take it off your invoice" but they never did and eventually started threatening legal action over my refusal to pay for milk they hadn't delivered. They settled for part-payment, which I thought was worth it to avoid the hassle of legal action, but I won't go back to having milk delivered.

pixwix

Don't touch it - leave it where it is. Even taking it into the house could be seen as agreeing to a contract. Certainly don't use it.

If it's still there after a few days and is going bad, or more is added, simply ring your Environmental Services Dept and tell them that someone is dumping unsolicited stuff at your door that may constitute a health risk. If they can trace the supplier they'll be billed for its removal.

digitig

Streethawk wrote: »

BTW - "phone the police and report him for trespassing" - only if you have asked him to leave and he has refused, & not if your doorstep is straight on to the street. Even then only if he's truly obnoxious!!!

It can come to that, though. We had a case -- not with milk but with organic veg boxes. A local company started leaving them for us. We left them out with a note saying that we hadn't ordered them, but the guy kept calling and demanding payment. Then he started calling when I was out and threatening my wife with violence, at which point we got the police involved. I wish we'd got them involved earlier and saved my wife the distress.

Harleys_Mum_2

Absolutely not! You'd said 'no' to milk delivery, this is just a way of trying to sway you, leave it there & when you are asked to pay, politely explain you had already declined the offer of milk delivery & had ample already in your fridge. Problem solved!

Keystone2k

If I was you, I would leave it on the step, where the milk man left it. He'll eventually get the message that you do not want it delivered.

chog24

You said no to the delivery, it's almost certainly just an error, so I vote don't drink it. If you have space in your fridge to store it, I'd suggest putting it in the fridge so it doesn't go off until you manage to get through to the company and sort out the error. If not (because let's face it 4l is quite a lot of milk and not everyone has that amount of space in their fridge - I usually don't) then I'd say it's worth doing what you can to keep it cool (put it in the shade, in a bucket of ice, for example) until you can contact the company to rectify the mistake.

Of course, when you get through to the company, they may decide it's not worth their while to come and collect the milk and may, therefore, offer it to you free of charge

[Deleted User]

Clamp it, and charge the milkman a release fee when he comes to collect it.