Do you get milk delivered to your house?

Or anything else for that matter (other than mail)?
We get milk every two days, though we used to get it daily when there were more people in the house. We occasionally get fresh cream too.

Heck, we don’t even get mail delivery (to be fair, we are pretty remote by most peoples standards).

I havn’t seen a dairy truck since Chicago, back in the late '60’s.

Sometimes my dad calls and says “I’m stopping by the gas station to get cigarettes. Do you need me to pick anything up?” and I tell him “milk” and he drops it off here on his way home. Does that count? :slight_smile:

I would otherwise look into it, except that the owner of the only local dairy I know of that does deliver has been running for public office for years. He holds political opinions that I seriously disagree with, and has done various shady moves in his political advertisements including seriously misrepresenting the number of illegal immigrants in a political ad as a scare tactic. Since he uses his wealth as a businessman to fuel his campaigns, I refuse to buy any of his products.

Urban American Midwest.
No.

And what Enipla said, about not seeing milk delivery since the 1960s.

Nope. I would probably opt to have it delivered if it were an option here (depending on the price, of course), but we get nothing delivered here except mail and the occasional UPS delivery.

Nope. And also no mail delivery. In fact most of us in Canada don’t get direct mail delivery. We pick it up at the end of the street from one of these.

No. My neighbors’ house, built at the exact same time as mine, has a milk box built in next to the front door, but mine doesn’t. It’s lined with zinc. But I don’t think any dairy has delivered in this area in 40 years.

We used to get Charles Chips, right up into the mid '70s. They’re still around, too.

We we lived in Virginia Beach, we did. There were actually two delivery companies that would drop off stuff once a week. We used Yoder Dairies. They make the best egg nog evar.

Oddly enough the area we now live in, while full of cows, does not have delivery because there aren’t enough people out here to make it worthwhile. I have to go to the grocery store to buy the milk of the cows I see on a semi-regular basis (these guys). They do use glass bottles, though. You pay a deposit and the customer service desk reimburses you when you bring them back. If you go to one of the farm stores, they also sell meat and ice cream cakes.

I grew up in Cleveland and I remember getting the tins of Charles Chips. We also got milk delivery there, and we did have a milk box, though for some reason it was in the garage wall on the back of the house, so rather than make the guy walk all the way around back my mom would leave the garage door open on delivery day.

I’m sure that with the price of gasoline these days any home delivery would be out of the question. The price of a quart of milk would be outrageous. In fact, it is outrageous in grocery stores even when you have to go and get it.! :frowning:

Alta Dena dairy still has a few delivery trucks. We did it for a while about 5 or 6 years ago, partly for the novelty. They also did ice cream, cheese, eggs, bacon, and some juices. We stopped it after a while because we just didn’t need that much of that stuff and the deliveryman changed his route so that he would have had to deliver too late for one of us to be home.

Romansperson, my aunt and uncle lived in Berea and they had milk delivery; they had a freestanding milk box next to the door. It, too, had a galvanized lining. Our family always went to Lawson’s; I can still hear my father walking up to the counter and saying “Two half-gallons, please.” With the metal carrier to hold the bottles.

For some reason the Denver area has never let go of milk delivery. You see milk boxes on porches all over the area. I used to get milk delivered for years, but then I got divorced and started travelling, and I came home too many times to spoiled milk reeking on the porch. I loved that milk - 1% tasted like whole milk bought in stores.

We still get it delivered here in Denver. Royal Crest has the best tasting milk I’ve had in a long while. We get a gallon of milk once a week, creamer twice a month and cheese twice a month. Our bill is around 30 dollars per month, so it’s a little more expensive than supermarket milk, but it tastes sooo much better.

Yup - they deliver to our house. We have a standing order of a couple of gallons of milk, another of juice, eggs every other week. The kids love it. I had to put a cooler outside when the ravens learned what egg cartons look like though.

He hits our house early morning Wednesdays.

We don’t right now, but we’re looking into it for when my almost-one-year-old starts drinking whole milk. There’s a company here in Seattle that delivers milk and other dairy-type products. I just don’t know if it will work well for us, since we’re in a condo with a secure door and no doorman.

Aren’t you in the Raleigh area? If you are, Jackson Dairy Farm in Spivey’s Corner delivers (at least, they did last year…not sure if they’ve had to stop recently).

My husband was a “milkman” - actually, it would have been more accurate to call him a milkboy, as he was in elementary school when he had the job. He also didn’t live in a house with indoor plumbing until he was 14. He turned 40 this year.

Here’s a better link and it looks like they’re still making their rounds.

NYC is a little different, I guess. There isn’t a “dairy delivery” or anything but my local grocrery store will deliver all of my groceries for free as long as I purchase $25 or more. Generally I still haul my own groceries home since I am right up the road and I could use a little extra excersize anyway, but sometimes if I buy a lot of stuff or extremely heavy things I will use the delivery option.