Milk Deliveries

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31987, 14 May 1969, Page 16

Milk Deliveries

Sir, —Your correspondent objects to paying twice for milk and asks why anyone should. Does he consider that the vendor is going to supply, say, a hundred-bottles of milk for nothing because the money has been taken? He has to pay for this milk, too; he does not get it just for the taking. If your correspondent considered this amount weekly for milk and cream for approximately 650 customers he or she would perhaps understand what the quoted vendor meant. As for deliveries to the refrigerator, I have never heard anything so ridiculous. My husband starts at midnight and does not return home till 8.30 a.m. What time would he finish if that idea were carried out for 650 customers, and how would the milkman knocking on the door between those hours be received?—Yours, etc, SERVICE ALREADY. May 13. 1969.

Sir,—May I ask “Service, Please” at what time she would suggest milk deliveries to be carried out so that the milk could be put in her refrigerator? If some “no-good” steals her petrol, coal, wood, etc, from her property, would she expect the supplier to replace it at his expense, as she seems to think that the “milky” should replace milk? In the days when milk was delivered to the door, vendors had about 50 to 100 customers. Now, to make any sort of profit at all, a vendor has 'to have about 600 customers, who want milk 350 days a year in all weathers. If “Servicd, Please” thinks that this is child's play she is more than welcome to do our milk round, count the tokens, sort the cash, and make up the monthly accounts, as our first holiday in five years would be welcome.—Yours, MILKY’S HARD-UP WIFE. May 13, 1969.