Bread/milk deliveries

[Miss Chicken]

I was looking at an episode of Dead Like Me in which the person that dies was the milkman making home deliveries and it made me think about the last time I ever saw milk being delivered. I think it must about 20 years ago. I looked in the phone book and discovered that only a handful of suburbs in Hobart still have milk or bread homes deliveries.

Do you still have home deliveries where you live?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I don't know anyone who gets milk delivered but I do see Milk floats early in the mornings delivering bottles of it so some people must surely still be having home deliveries of bottled milk by a milkman.

 

[RoJoHen]

I would love to have a milkman! I drink so much frickin milk, and I usually run out of it before I run out of anything else. I also hate having to carry gallons of milk up the stairwell to my apartment when I've also got bags of food in my hands. It would be so convenient having someone deliver my milk.

 

[Cayla]

My grandmother used to have milk and bread delivered to her home. The last time she had a delivery was about 25 years ago.

 

[Jadzia]

There's a milkman who does rounds near where I live. I've never seen him, but if I ever wake up in the early hours, sometimes I hear him clanking his bottles. He can be noisy, and sometimes I hear him swearing out loud repeatedly if he drops a bottle or something. He can be very early too, at like 3am or something ridiculous. But it's actually nice to hear him, because it feels a bit like catching a glimpse of father christmas delivering presents in the middle of the night.

 

[Gertch]

I remember when everyone had a milkbox on their front steps. But I think we stopped our deliveries in the early 70's. I have seen milk trucks since but they are probably more for delivering to stores now.

 

[gwud]

We have a milk-man, he's very useful for milk, bread and potatos. Weirdly he actually runs from house to house - when he gets off his float.

 

[Mr. B]

We had milk delivery several years ago. I just did some searching and I'm not sure that service is available here anymore.

 

[Mallory]

The grocery stores will deliver where I live. And you can order up anything in the store, not just bread or milk.

 

[MetalPants]

I've never seen milkman deliveries and such except on tv shows like Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best.

 

[John Clark]

We don't at our house, though some of the others in the neighbourhood do (UK).

For me, it just works out easier and cheaper to grab it on the way home

 

[cultcross]

Still do at my mother's house where I grew up, she still gets milk delivered. I don't here, but I have spotted milk floats about in the early hours, so I assume I could if I wanted to!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

No more milkmen round my way (or round any of my "way"s, in fact) but I do recall one night seeing a milk float drive the other way on a dual carriageway near my "home" address. Or did I dream it?

Anyway, where I grew up we had milk floats every day (except Sunday - that would have been ridiculous back in those days) - used to wake me up every morning with their incessant rattling across THAT bump in the road of our street. My morning task was to get the milk in and make cups of tea, then we'd dishwash the bottles and leave them out for the morning.

Happy days. Cold days too, in fact, so our milk would remain fresh and cool especially when our fridge packed up. Best of all, our milk bottle tops remained resolutely unpecked due to a distinct lack of tits.

 

[Daneel]

I have never in my life seen anyone get milk or bread delivered to them. It's a damn shame... now all those jokes about people's kids "looking like the milkman" just don't work anymore.

I'm curious about something though. For those of you who get milk/bread delivered or have in the past: is/was there any variety in the selection? That is, could you make sure that you only received skim/1%/2%/homogenized or whole wheat/multigrain/rye/white or whatever kind you wanted? Or was there just a standard delivery type? 'Cause if I could have these things delivered, and still get the skim milk and multigrain bread I usually get, that'd be pretty sweet.

 

[Mallory]

When I was younger and we had milk delivered there was an order form every day for the next day's delivery. You could specify what you wanted, and in the case of dairy products, the quantity as well (i.e. 1/2 gallon of skim milk, pint of cream, 2lbs of butter).

 

[Jadzia]

I have never in my life seen anyone get milk or bread delivered to them. It's a damn shame... now all those jokes about people's kids "looking like the milkman" just don't work anymore.

I'm sure this joke can be resurrected to involve another kind of door-to-door visitor.

 

[Jan]

We had milk delivery when I grew up in Chicago. I'm not sure when it stopped or if my mother stopped it after we started leaving home. As I recall, she had a standard order for delivery twice a week but if she wanted to change that, all she had to do was leave a note tucked into the neck of one of the empties she was leaving for him. Easter and Christmas were the only times we had real butter instead of margerine at our house and I particularly recall the butter coming formed like a lamb.

Jan

 

[Zulu Romeo]

The only other good thing about my milkman was that he wasn't a phony psychiatrist who gave pat diagnoses without first obtaining their full medical history.

 

[ITL]

My parents get milk delivered, and have done for as long as I can remember. I don't recall seeing a milkman in my town, though. Good job I live a minute's walk away from a supermarket.

 

[WillsBabe]

We don't get our milk delivered and I don't know who does. I know that there are milk deliveries, though. I've never had milk delivered while I've run my own home, except for a little while several years back. That didn't work at all because I couldn't get used to knowing how much milk I needed delivered when. It's much easier to regulate buying from the supermarket. Bread deliveries I'm not sure I've ever seen.