Do Milkmen Still Exist?

[Trusty ian]

My brother in law at the time 1977-78was a milkman for a while and I must at have been around 13/14 yrs old. I'm my school hols I would go with him early on his rounds. The town milkmen had electric floats but the village milkmen had noisey transit vans . He had a transit. I used to drive the transit slowly while he delivered the milk .

[sparklegirl]

we have one that delivers on a Monday and a Thursday, we get the glass bottles and he is 80p a pint so not cheap but the bottles get recycled. We started at the beginning of lockdown and said we would continue as the money is going to a local business with local farmers. Bought some reusable lids of amazon and its been brilliant.

[Elmhurst 5]

I've had my milk delivered by the same dairy (just a small one) since 2002. Never seen the milkman as he delivers v.early 5-5.30. Mon, Wed and Fri delivery. A lady used to call every Friday to collect the money but that stopped some years ago now. I pay direct to their bank account once a month.
Couldn't face waking up and not having milk for my morning cuppa.

[jdouds]

Originally Posted by Leggibone

Not sure if he’s round regularly, as we use too much milk, but I was woken up by a milkman the other week (somewhere around 5amish) we use a milk and more milkman at work though, always there, really easy to adjust the order

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Hi didn’t understand you use to much milk. We use 12 plus pints a week

[pompeyboy]

Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

Must be a huge reduction in plastic with those that use the glass bottles.

It was green bags today and in my Road of 11 houses there must have been 30 bags put out and that’s in 1 week! Awful.

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Funny how things go round in circles, from the milkman pulling his electric float full of reuseable glass bottles, the fizzy pop man & bakers van all doing home deliveries and the abundance of smallish supermarkets and stores on the high street, we had Fine Fare, Victor Value, Sainsburys, and even an M&S, there was also a Kwik Save but that have been later. Bank on every corner too, that was the local high stret not the City centre

Most of them closed and the out of town superstores took over, milk came in plastic bottles and if you didn't have a car it wasn't great.

Now demand for home deliveries is at an all time high, local supermarkets are the expansion area for the likes of Tesco and even M&S, along with glass over plastic and nuclear, sorry electric powered cars and the environmentalists think they have invented something new

[BucksBugsy]

Has anyone mentioned Ernie yet ? He drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Maybe I'm just too old

[Pumpkin Pie]

Originally Posted by pompeyboy

Funny how things go round in circles, from the milkman pulling his electric float full of reuseable glass bottles, the fizzy pop man & bakers van all doing home deliveries and the abundance of smallish supermarkets and stores on the high street, we had Fine Fare, Victor Value, Sainsburys, and even an M&S, there was also a Kwik Save but that have been later. Bank on every corner too, that was the local high stret not the City centre

Most of them closed and the out of town superstores took over, milk came in plastic bottles and if you didn't have a car it wasn't great.

Now demand for home deliveries is at an all time high, local supermarkets are the expansion area for the likes of Tesco and even M&S, along with glass over plastic and nuclear, sorry electric powered cars and the environmentalists think they have invented something new

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I’m that old I remember the milk was delivered by horse and cart!

[pompeyboy]

Originally Posted by Pumpkin Pie

I’m that old I remember the milk was delivered by horse and cart!

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I remember the coalman and rag & bone man with a horse and cart but not the milky.

[RickT]

We have 2 on our street.. Well ones a women but we still call her the milkman 🤣

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by pompeyboy

Funny how things go round in circles, from the milkman pulling his electric float full of reuseable glass bottles, the fizzy pop man & bakers van all doing home deliveries and the abundance of smallish supermarkets and stores on the high street, we had Fine Fare, Victor Value, Sainsburys, and even an M&S, there was also a Kwik Save but that have been later. Bank on every corner too, that was the local high stret not the City centre

Most of them closed and the out of town superstores took over, milk came in plastic bottles and if you didn't have a car it wasn't great.

Now demand for home deliveries is at an all time high, local supermarkets are the expansion area for the likes of Tesco and even M&S, along with glass over plastic and nuclear, sorry electric powered cars and the environmentalists think they have invented something new

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I worked an evening shift and all day Saturday for Victor Value back in the early 60's when I was 13 or 14.