White Stuff

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float the hum of The Milk , and the clanking of the bottles on the doorstep, was once a familiar sound of early morning in towns and cities across the UK.

With supermarket online delivery slots at a premium during the coronavirus self-isolation, thousands of people were turning to traditional - and for some new methods to their daily pinta.

Despite the distribution issues, what is, demand for door-to-door-deliveries increased, with a growing army of milkmen and women, offers More Than just bottles of the White Stuff .

'I've been inundated with gifts,'

"It is really full," says Lynne walls, who has a small round milk in Horsforth, a suburb of Leeds.

"It made a huge difference to My Life . I Am with the work starting, much, much earlier and finishing later. "

She wakes up at 02:00, working Six Days a week, and orders have doubled since the lockdown began.

After their round ends, She spends answer most of the time of day of news and E-Mails, but quips: "We don't have much else to do at The Moment , do we?"

She adds: "I started, bread, butter, and various fruit juices, as well as all other types of milk, to help people who are isolated.

"I was absolutely overwhelmed with gifts.

"I have boxes of chocolates, Easter eggs, bottles of wine, flowers, many cards and notes of appreciation and small children, I make drawings that always Make Me smile. "

"My float is really full'

"It makes My Day when I have a hand-written thank-you note on a door-to-door, and I get several A Day ," says Ian Beardwell, from Islington, North London , who has a milk and More milk man for 31 years.

"The reaction of my customers and I'm sure the same applies To My Colleagues - it was fantastic and everyone has really appreciated that we will do our best. "

The UK delivery company, which was bought by German-owned dairy giant Müller Dairy Crest in the year 2015, says: "We have just enough to keep the milkmen and women. "

the company, which is around 1,000 milkmen and women selling 200 different products, is engaged in "unprecedented volumes of customers," which began in 25,000 people signing up since the lockdown.

It had to stop even accepting new customers for a time, and currently looking to recruit an additional 100 employees.

"My existing customers to order more," says Mr Beardwell, adds: "In fact, product turnover doubled, which means that my float is really full.

"Because I'm in to about 20 additional calls per day, my round takes longer than it usually does, but in times like these we must all make our contribution and I'm happy to be able to do mine. "

'I'm just so grateful,'

"It's like searching for treasure on the doorstep every morning," says the new customer Jo Heaton, from Sherborne in Dorset.

"I have to reduce my first order in February in an attempt to plastics, but when the lockdown happened, I was even more relieved that I had done it. "

She has upped her daily order of three pints to five, so your self-isolate friends with milk, if you are able to book delivery

"I've never woken up and had no time for Breakfast. I left a thank you letter for The Milkman , because I'm just so grateful.

"Our children love the porridge, so it is nice to know you are still able to have that in lockdown, and I milky coffee At Home , now I can't get out in the cafes. "

'cheap food comes at a high Price

'"the people love it," says Bauer, Oliver Hemsley, who has a herd of 75 cows. "They say it is what taste of milk. "

The start of the pandemic coincided with his farm near Beaminster in Dorset, starting from Organic Milk Sales .

Mr Hemsley, circumventing the conventional distribution system through the sale of his milk from his farm, with five purpose-built machines.

The Machines , each of which can dispense up to 200 litres of milk per day, so that customers fill bottles or other reusable containers, and Mr Hemsley is planned, more in the case of farm shops and other local businesses.

he says he is "eager" about cleanliness and his customers do not come into contact with Other People .

"the customer is the fact that it is local, it is organic, it supports the Wildlife - and the one that really means something like.

"Hopefully, we have passed "peak supermarket". We learn that food comes cheap at a high Price - the Nature . "

"do not forget us,"

"The blocking is going to change The Way people shop forever," says Simon Mellin, the establishment Of the Modern milkman in Colne, Lancashire, England, with three friends.

She bought a milk round and developed a smartphone app to allow customers to locally produced milk and reduce your use of plastic boxes.

When the lockdown began, they had an influx of 1,200 new customers per day, and now the 50,000 deliveries per week across Greater Manchester , Yorkshire, and east Lancashire, together with your latest hub in Nottinghamshire.

Mr Mellin known, it has to recruit "a real challenge" to keep pace with demand, with The Need to train up to 10 new drivers and A Day .

And it is not only for its customers, the benefits have says from the door-to-door deliveries, Mr Mellin.

meat and fruit and vegetable box deliveries are now round distributed to the company's milk, providing a "lifeline" for local suppliers saw that the demand from the Hotel and catering industry slump, when the pubs and restaurants.

Mr Mellin, he says he is confident of keeping many of its new customers, as soon as the coronavirus-the crisis is over.

"you have need of us, if you had to stay At Home and do not forget us. "

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Source of news: bbc.com