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does anyone have milk delivered by a milkie?

I am thinking of getting a couple of pints, to help support them, just as I use local butcher grocer etc.

Does anyone know how much they charge for a pint.

TIA

keeley

The cost to us is irrelevant, this is a dying tradition ...

we get most of our milk delivered by the milkman, my feelings about the cost are the same as Curry stated, I don't know what we pay, I know it's more than buyig from a large retailer but I don't mind. :)

We still have a Milkman, coal man and fish monger deliver in our village.  I am sure the milk is about 40p a pint, but we don't care.   The Fish comes straight from Eyemouth Harbour is excellent.  Most of the older wives in the village buy fish from him.  Be a shame of the van men stopped coming.

Lorna (jnr) and I both have a milkman. Yes much more than supermarket prices but who wants to get the car out when it is snowing or raining to go and get a pint of milk? I think we pay 48p pint at the moment.
On the other hand if people have large families and are on a low income the difference in price would matter.

that's way I haven't considered it before Lorna. With 3 children now aged 5,7 &9 we were just getting through so much milk I wouldn't have been able to afford the milkman. Now their milk consumption is not as high I thought I'd try it.

I figured that it would probably cost the same getting it from the milkman as it is to pop to corner shop.

I might give express a ring.

Thanks for your replies.

keeley

jewelflower. Exactly too expensive for people who use a lot.On times when I have run out (kids keep the teapot going when they visit!!) I have nipped round the corner to a new Co-Op store and I am sure I paid 55p for two pints. That is a lot of difference.

My dear darling daddy was a milko for Express Diaries for  some 30+ years.  We have just started having a milkman for us because not only does it support a service that is quickly vanishing, how many times do you nip to the shops just for a pint, and end up spending a tenner on stuff you didn't need!? 

A 4 pint plastic polly, delivered to you doorstep her in Essex, thanks to Dairy Crest is £1.62, we get our first one cheaper at £1.12.  We also get a pint of fresh apple juice delivered every Friday for number one daughter who guzzles it over the weekend.  They also deliver all of your dairy produce, bread, spuds and eggs, and the Express used to deliver growbags and compost!  Plus you can get your Dairy Diary, and a selection of lovely Christmas hampers and your Christmas meat.

Am I on commission, not really, but coming from a milkmans home, milk runs through these veins of mine!  ;D

I have the milkman deliver too, its convenient for me. I have too much to do without worrying whether there is enough milk for tea in the morning. I get 3 pints a day, and once a week get bacon and Yakult. Also mine does compost too and him and his mate who has a nursery do a bedding plant run on a Sunday morning. The compost is really convenient - delivered to the door, no lugging it around! He also does fizzy drinks which I get some of in the summer (don't drink it the rest of the year but do like a glass of pop in the summer) and meat, eggs etc which I occasionally buy.
Like EJ says, if I went to the shop to buy milk I'd spend more than I intended, also the shop is too far away to "nip" to, so the milkman is a godsend.

EJ. One brother-in-law spent all his working life as a milkman, another spent many years and even my Charlie was a milkman for a couple of years!!
Our guy is so pleasant and often does little bits of shopping for some elderly folk who can't get out.

I love the idea of a milkman, and it is a wonderful sound to hear the milk float very early in the morning.  Unfortunately it is not really worth our while to get milk. I don't drink or use cows milk but have goats milk.  I don't drink tea or coffee but have herb teas and only have the goats milk on my cereal. I freeze my milk so I have always got it.  Even if a milkman delivered it, he would only do it once or twice a week and it can vary, so not worth it.  OH drinks black coffee and doesn't drink tea either, so we can't support a milkman.  However, I would hate to see them dying out.  busy_lizzie

Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on May 11, 2006, 22:16:19


A 4 pint plastic polly, delivered to you doorstep her in Essex, thanks to Dairy Crest is £1.62,

:o :o  Good lord!  From the local supermarket £1 = 4pints.  That's a pretty big difference.

Sorry to be a damp squid and all but in a house where milk disappears faster than water a lot of the time, I'd rather think of my bank balance than someone elses!  ;D

I get my milk and O.J. from a milkie the boys reckon it tastes better than the poly bottles but a farm shop near us has started selling unpasturised milk from their own Guernsey herd and the quality is out of this world now all I have to do is persuade Colin the milkie to stock it on his float.....

YP. Not a damp squib!! As I already mentioned price does matter. If I still had four kids plus a foster son at home I would certainly have to look at the price.
Lorna

I started to get my milk from the milkman. I grew up in a small Somerset village & we owned the village shop for a few years, so it's really important to me to try and support the small, independent business.....

BUT he made so much bl**dy noise delivering at half four in the morning I had to stop!

We live in a small close of five houses and the noise of his van driving in and then turning round, doors slamming etc. woke all my neighbours up!

Tabbycat

Quote from: busy_lizzie on May 11, 2006, 23:02:02
However, I would hate to see them dying out. 

Not much chance of that around this way, every other kid has ginger hair ;D



TAXI

Blimey YP, where do you get your milk from for a quid?  Lidls is way over a pound for a 4 pinter now, and my coop is the same price as the milkman!  Thing is, this is why the milko is dying out, the supermarkets (yuck spit) buy in bulk from overseas cheap cheap.  A lot of the milk we drink is from France and the such.  Anything that stops my lining Mr Tescos or Mr Asda or the very expensive Mr Coops pockets makes me feel good.  Now if only the farm shop would start 'growing' washing powder!

As I said, I was wasting more money popping into Asda or the coop just for milk so I reakon I am better off.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Loads to pick up on here!

ACE, I remember the days when the Co-Op milkman (remember the divi?) delivered to our street in a horse drawn wagon. There were grass verges outside our houses. One piece of verge was eaten away always.....can't remember if the milkie had ginger hair tho ;) ;) :D)

And that bl**din milkman who delivers round here at 4.30am and always wakes me up with Radio1 or something blaring - there should be a Law >:(

Me, the only time I buy 'proper' milk is when I make lasagne (so not too often, then)....and buy a pint of full-cream for the bechamel. Or for 'creamed' soups, etc.

Otherwise, go even lazier (and cheaper) than the rest of you...my once-a-month shop at Aldi supplies all my 'milk' - dried stuff, which I make up a pint at a time.  My lifestyle's too erratic to have an order for the real stuff, and the dried stuff I buy only goes in early morning tea. Used to buy long-life cartons, but there was a weight problem with carrying them home, so the dried serves my purpose really well.

I think i'll go ahead and get a pint or so delivered. I use the village butcher and pay a bit more there to get "proper" meat, by this I mean when I ask for 1/2 a pound of mince he picks up a piece of steak and runs it through the mincer, so i see what I am getting.So although money's not exactly freely flowing  ::) I think I'll see how it goes.

Oh and seeing as I am on Heathrows flight path not sure milkmans noise will affect us  ;) not with the 4.30 to New York taking off  ::)

We used to get our milk delivered but it was a problem as our needs varied enormously depending on who was at home (students etc). Then our local dairy was bought over by a huge national company that also supplies many of the supermarkets so I began to wonder whether there was any point, given that we paid substantially more for the milk from the milkman and got woken up at 4am as well. I'd happily buy from local producers whether delivered or not. Don't think the producers are that local any more though and I also think the profits are going elsewhere.