On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:29:43 GMT, l not -l wrote:

> When we had young children at home, we had home milk delivery. That was
> 25-ish years ago and there were a couple of dairies that offered home
> delivery. When one of them gave up, the other took over delivery to those
> customers and continues delivery to this day. The biggest change is, when
> we had the service long ago, there were two delivery days per week to the
> area, today, there is only one. However, there is the full range of dairy
> products available today, pretty much anything available at the supermarket.
> In olden days, we didn't have 100+ variations on yogurt, ersatz milk, etc.

We had the insulated galvanized metal flip top box on the porch for
deliveries - most houses had them (ours sat out there for at least 5
years after our most recent delivery).

It used to be milk in glass bottles but at some point in the
mid-late 70's they switched to the plastic jugs. I think the
dimensions of now ubiquitous standard size gallon plastic jugs were
based on the dimensions of these standard[?] milk boxes. 4 jugs fit
perfectly inside the milk box.

-sw