The Milkman Hasn't Cometh ( was: Weighing In Very Late

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Talisman" <talisman22457 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
> <carolynwhite2@> wrote:
>  Ok, fair cop - should have checked the actual wording. I could 
> start 
> > a ghastly British Thread by explaining you put empty milk bottles 
> > out the night *before* for collection, because milkmen collect and 
> > deliver at unseemly hours in the early morning, waking you up if 
> >you have only just dozed off after worrying into the small hours..> 
> 
> Do they really still deliver, at all? The last time I had a milkman, 
> I was a kid in my parent's home.  Okay, I didn't actually HAVE the 
> milkman, just his delivery services...oh, never mind.
> 
> And bottles...do they still use those?  And collect empties?  Sounds 
> like life 40 years ago.

Geoff:
No, it is a picture of life in the UK in 2006.

Although many people buy milk from the supermarket or the corner shop, there are still 
doorstep deliveries in towns and cities and larger villages.

In the village where I live, there is a doorstep delivery every other day - at aboout 05:00! 
We had our milk delivered until about a year ago, when we decided that it was far cheaper 
to buy it at the shops; we had kept up our delivery because many older folk rely on the 
milkman and obviously, if demand drops, the service comes under threat.