How to stop the milkman - I am a complete chicken

Counting_Pennies_2

Getting the milk from the milkman is so expensive, that I am going to have to start buying from the supermarket again.

Out of principle I went with the milkman as I didn't want to see a good service for many housebound people stop and I also like the service.

But being overdrawn each month lately has started to make me realise that sentimentality is getting the better of me, and I need to start being realistic. The milk has also been off nearly every day for the last two months as he delivers the milk any time between 11am and 2pm so it sits heating up on his float.

But my problem is I can't bear confrontation, he is a sweet enough chap and I don't want to be mean.

Does anyone have any nice ways for me to say 'no more please' to him!

Thanks

moogiegirl

Leave a note out for him. Don't feel bad, after all you have been giving him money for off milk for 2 months.

mrcow

Counting_Pennies wrote:

Does anyone have any nice ways for me to say 'no more please' to him!

Stick a note in an empty bottle saying "no milk til further notice, thanks"

It's not nice, but there's no confrontation!

**purpleprincess**

As the others have said, just leave him a note saying no more milk!

thriftlady_2

I'd leave a note too. When I had a milkman it was the only way I could communicate with him as, like yours he'd deliver in the dead of night and leave a bill. I used to write a cheque and post it.

It wasn't what I had in mind - I had fond memories of my mum's milkman who looked exactly like the one in Alfie Gets In First by Shirley Hughes:D (apologies to those who don't know what I'm on about - it's children's book;) )He used to call every Friday morning and chat as she paid her bill. Anyway apart from all that he was just too expensive. i sometimes get milk from a local dairy at the farmshop, it's very reasonable.

dlb

I had a this problem with our pop man, i had wanted to cancel him for over a year and dare not do it, then after finding this site, i just shocked myself and came out with it next time he came, told him he was too expensive and i didnt want him anymore, he was cool about it tried to talk me out of it, but just told him no thanks!!

regulator_2

say u goin on holiday and u'l let him no when 2 deliver the milk again.

SnowyOwl_2

Make your husband tell him.

recovering_spendaholic

Counting_Pennies wrote:

Getting the milk from the milkman is so expensive, that I am going to have to start buying from the supermarket again.

Out of principle I went with the milkman as I didn't want to see a good service for many housebound people stop and I also like the service.

But being overdrawn each month lately has started to make me realise that sentimentality is getting the better of me, and I need to start being realistic. The milk has also been off nearly every day for the last two months as he delivers the milk any time between 11am and 2pm so it sits heating up on his float.

But my problem is I can't bear confrontation, he is a sweet enough chap and I don't want to be mean.

Does anyone have any nice ways for me to say 'no more please' to him!

Thanks

Ooh you sound just like me!! I hummed and haaed for ages about getting rid of the milkman and in the end left a note out saying no milk until further notice. I have the same problem with the girl who has cleaned for me for ages. She was my Mum's cleaner and when Mum died she started to come to me and I was and still am too chicken to get rid. The thing is she is a hopeless cleaner and since I was made redundant I can't afford the £20 a week for her wages but I don't know how to tell her....

Whitefiver

mrcow wrote:

Stick a note in an empty bottle saying "no milk til further notice, thanks"

It's not nice, but there's no confrontation!

Hmmmmm, as an ex-milkman (long ago), I used to *HATE* this type of note. As others have said, I would suggest a brief polite note saying that you no longer require milk as at least the milkman is left in no doubt. If you feel like it, give an explanation, but that is not necessary.

With the UFN type note, you never know know whether you will be delivering again - some of my customers used to put this out when they went on holiday, for example.

Regards,

White

mookybargirl

Tell him you've just been advised by the doctor to stay away from dairy products :rofl: