Milk delivery

[Azalea]

Does anyone on here have one?  I’ve found one - Modern Milkman - that is offering 50% off for the first two weeks plus a complementary milk hut.  They sell different non dairy items plus bread, jam, eggs and other items.  

[OutOfFocus]

We get milk from milk and more. Reasonably happy.  

Milk and orange juice in returnable bottles.

[Spartacus]

I always feel we lost something amazing when we moved away from home milk delivery with glass bottles using electric floats to driving to supermarkets and buying milk in plastic bottles.

Hindsight says we should have valued the good old milky more 

[HeadNun]

Yep, I hear you. Been waiting for modern milkman to these parts and plan to try them out. I still remember Dennis, our Egg-man, from my childhood, who used to deliver dozens in his Citroen 2C and came to collect the boxes the following week. Happy Days. 

[Sue]

Just now, Spartacus said:

I always feel we lost something amazing when we moved away from home milk delivery with glass bottles using electric floats to driving to supermarkets and buying milk in plastic bottles.

Hindsight says we should have valued the good old milky more 

Off topic, but when I was a kid in Streatham, long ago, apart from the milkman (rarely if ever milkwoman),  who also delivered yoghurt - very exotic - in little glass jars, we also had regular deliveries of coal, bread and cheesecakes (not the kind we know now, they had coconut on top), fruit and veg,  and paraffin (both pink and blue).

I'm not entirely sure we have lost "something amazing" by buying milk in shops.

The glass bottles were left on the doorstep and the metallic tops were pecked through by birds getting at the cream/milk.

Or else the bottles were nicked. 

And then there was the rag and bone man.... bell and horse and cart, just like Steptoe.

God I'm old.

We didn't have supermarket deliveries. We didn't have supermarkets. I remember the first supermarket opening in Streatham. It  was quite amazing having to walk round and  put your own shopping in a basket.

As you were ..... Sorry OP and admin.

[Jess2003]

Not yet but have been seriously considering it. Good to know others are successfully using it. 

[Earl Aelfheah]

Of course you also had lot's of local diaries. My grandmother had a job as a milkmaid in Camberwell when she was young!

Edited 1 hour ago by Earl Aelfheah

[Azalea]

9 hours ago, Sue said:

Off topic, but when I was a kid in Streatham, long ago, apart from the milkman (rarely if ever milkwoman),  who also delivered yoghurt - very exotic - in little glass jars, we also had regular deliveries of coal, bread and cheesecakes (not the kind we know now, they had coconut on top), fruit and veg,  and paraffin (both pink and blue).

I'm not entirely sure we have lost "something amazing" by buying milk in shops.

The glass bottles were left on the doorstep and the metallic tops were pecked through by birds getting at the cream/milk.

Or else the bottles were nicked. 

And then there was the rag and bone man.... bell and horse and cart, just like Steptoe.

God I'm old.

We didn't have supermarket deliveries. We didn't have supermarkets. I remember the first supermarket opening in Streatham. It  was quite amazing having to walk round and  put your own shopping in a basket.

As you were ..... Sorry OP and admin.

Based on what I’ve seen, you can get yogurt in small glass jars from milkman now if you miss those.  Butter and bread is also available.  One of the dairies has fresh bread from a bakery in Brockley, but that bakery also do their own deliveries which I had been thinking of trying.

[David Peckham]

I miss milkmen. It was the sign of a good night out if you met one on the way home.

But could quality produce, in 100% recyclable packaging and home-delivered by zero emission electric vehicles really catch on these days?

They should bring back the Corona pop man, as well.