Milk delivery service

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One of the typical horse-drawn carts that sold milk and dairy products on Berlin's streets at the end of the 19th century
British milk float in 2008

A milk delivery service is a delivery service that primarily delivers milk and dairy products . The suppliers of milk were also known as the milkman , milk boy or milk maid . The daily service provided by these people, who drove to residential buildings in delivery trucks and delivered the milk, was part of everyday culture for a long time, especially in England and the USA. This was necessary because dairy products spoiled quickly before the invention and spread of refrigerators and preservation methods such as pasteurization . Therefore, mostly only the needs for one or two days were delivered or bought.

To this day there is a daily delivery of milk in some places, such as London. However, the market share is falling steadily: in 1980 milkmen supplied 89% of the milk consumed in British households, this share fell to 27% by the year 2000 and was only 3% in 2015. In Germany, school milk is sometimes supplied to schools with public funding .

The local supply of milk is otherwise nowadays mostly done by self-purchase in Western countries and, to a much smaller extent, as part of the supply of delivery services from supermarkets and online supermarkets . In addition, some farms, for example in Germany, sell milk as direct marketing. To a large extent, milk is sold in disposable packaging , even if the advantages of reusable milk bottles are often emphasized from the point of view of environmental friendliness. Consumers often prefer disposable containers because they are lighter than glass bottles and therefore easier to carry.

In the 21st century, milk deliveries to private homes are sometimes marketed , for example in Manhattan or Basel, as part of a new movement for sustainability and ecology, or interpreted as a new type of entrepreneurship .

An Indian milkman out and about with milk cans on his motorcycle

In India it is still common today to have the milk delivered by the milkman. Freshness is particularly important in the warm Indian climate, especially since refrigerated vehicles are rarely used.

See also

Web links

Commons : Milkmen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The milkman comes to us in London every day. Retrieved January 2, 2008 .
  2. ^ On duty with the last of the milkmen. on: telegraph.co.uk , Jan 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Decree No. 13/2001. School milk free portions. (PDF) Retrieved January 2, 2008 .
  4. ↑ Norman Zellmer: Edgar with the milk is there . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . June 14, 2012.
  5. ↑ Back to the milk bottle - but without a milkman? ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt. No. 184, August 9, 1979.
  6. ↑ The Milchmaa | Milkman Basel. Retrieved on March 26, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
  7. ^ Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute: Survival in the "Age of Less". ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Milkman in Manhattan. In: Lifestyle Ticker. Welt Online, accessed January 2, 2008 .