The milk fairy

Lemoncurd

We bought this house a couple of months ago and moved in two weeks ago. On three mornings this week we woke up to find a bottle of milk at the bottom of the garden. Checked with the neighbours who get milk delivered and none of their bottles have gone astray.
Haven't signed a contract or had any contact with a delivery company although we did leave an empty bottle from our old house out a week earlier. How do milk delivery companies work? seems a bit cheeky to just assume we want a supply...

carol_a_3

I think they all have their own systems. Seems as if they are hoping you will want regular deliveries and will call round for payment some time. If you don't want it to continue I would suggest leaving an empty bottle out with a note telling them so. Good luck in your new house!

Mado

Lemoncurd wrote:

. How do milk delivery companies work? seems a bit cheeky to just assume we want a supply...

or possibly very forward thinking and trying to be helpful.
Leaving a note sounds like an excellent idea. Unless you can actually do with the milk delivery!

Ticklemouse

When I moved house once, the milkman left a complimentary bottle of milk and orange juice for us. I signed up for the milk delivery, not the orange juice and he didn't charge me for it. If you don't want it, then a note is the best way forward.

Al_Mac

Would have expected Mr Milko to leave you a note, not just milk. It is summer and I wonder if the temp has coc£ed up.

Leave a note saying yes or no.

More expensive, more convenient, to have it delivered.
:beer:

Lillibet_2

I don't use a milk man but a family member pointed out that very often they perform a very valuable unsung service in addition to delivering the milk that I had never considered : They provide a kind of unoffical neighbourhood watch service. Apparently they are good at spotting irregularities when householders are away (and lets face it, the milk man always knows when you're on hols) like broken windows or damaged locks and also the police often speak with milk men following spates of break ins etc as they are a good source of info on stangers hanging around, different cars in the area etc. I realize not all milk men would be as reliable as my aunts in this regard but it seems fitting to mention it on Old Style.

Lemoncurd

Eventually got around to leaving a note after four days worth of deliveries. I just put that we hadn't yet arranged for milk to be delivered and to please call and discuss and gave them our phone and house number. The milk stopped being left and we haven't heard a word!
Anyone know how milk delivered to the door compares to supermarket milk? is it exactly the same stuff?

Zziggi

Lemoncurd wrote:

Eventually got around to leaving a note after four days worth of deliveries. I just put that we hadn't yet arranged for milk to be delivered and to please call and discuss and gave them our phone and house number. The milk stopped being left and we haven't heard a word!
Anyone know how milk delivered to the door compares to supermarket milk? is it exactly the same stuff?

tastes the same but a heck of a lot more expensive. I suppose if you go in for the convenience of it being on your doorstep, having someone come everyday if you are living on your own or vulnerable then maybe you'd go for it. Problem is some milk deliveries (like my friend's) don't get to you until about lunchtime. No good if you wanted it for breakfast and you can imagine the milk bottles being left until you get home from work at 6pm after being in the blazing sun on a summer's day. Doorstep deliveries are OK if you have milk tokens as you don't pay for the 7 pints a week regardless of the cost (although i was told that the milkman actually looses money on accepting milk tokens because he only gets back the basic price from the issuing dept. they get nothing for delivery). So if youhave milk tokens you might as well get it from a milkman rather than trailing to a supermarket. Our milk turns up at 6.30am as we're at teh start of our milkies round. I'd hate to be at teh other end at 1pm! Once DS turns 5 i'll be stopping doorstep delivery and going to the supermarket. Sadly it's finances that rule our spending.

miss*whisper

milk is milk

the supermarket is cheaper as they can bulk buy but the milkman you are paying for delivery and someone who knows if your house is emptty (good or bad thing depending on your viewpoint: my nan was found by her milkman and got her to hospital)

Trow

The supermarket is also more cheaper because they squeeze the supplier as far as they can to get cheap supplies.

Curry_Queen

Lemoncurd wrote:

Anyone know how milk delivered to the door compares to supermarket milk? is it exactly the same stuff?

I guess this will all depend on where you live and whether your milkie delivers local farm milk or from a large dairy like Dairy Crest or the Co-op for example. If it's the latter then the milk is from exactly the same sources as that you buy from the supermarket. A single carton could contain milk that has come from several different farms and herds as it all goes to a large collection point before being bottled, or should I say packaged these days :rolleyes:

I was brought up in a dairy-farming community and spent many an hour down on the farms helping out with milking and bottling up etc, much of which was done by hand! Back then it was your local farmer who delivered the milk to your doorstep which had been inside the cow the previous day! The milk you get these days is already several days old, even up to a week before it hits your doorstep, or the shops!

That's also how many teenagers earned their pocket money as they used to help out on the milk rounds, either before school or at weekends, and it paid more than paper rounds

I think I was around 13 or 14 when I first started on the rounds (not many girls did it!) picked up around 5.30am (we were one of the first on the round so she waited till she got to our house to collect me) and then dropped off at the school gates in time for school! Always stopped somewhere for a bacon butty and mug of hot coffee somewhere too, which was lovely on cold winter mornings