Over the years, home milk delivery has become exceedingly rare. The milkman has been disappearing from daily life since the 1950s, when refrigerators started becoming more common in American homes.

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Colour-Coded milk Milk in the UK has its labels and bottle tops colour-coded: Blue – full-fat milk. Green – semi-skimmed (or raw milk) Red – skimmed.

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Typical 1-liter bottle dimensions for pasteurized milk are 89 mm (base diameter), 35–40 mm (neck diameter) and 267 mm (height); and for sterilized milk 89 mm (base diameter), 26 mm (neck diameter) and 294 mm (height).

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Home milk delivery from local dairies and creameries was a mainstay for many families in the 1950s and ’60s. But as it became easier and cheaper to buy milk at the grocery store, and as processes were developed to extend milk’s shelf life, the milkman began to fade into the past.

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The milkman, carrying bottles of milk either in a truck or on a cart pulled along by a horse or sometimes a very burly dog, would open the cubby’s outside door and set the milk inside (and removing the empty bottles—and payment—left for him).

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Unfortunately, the convenience and cost factor also meant that glass milk bottles were soon replaced by plastic containers and wax paper cartons. By the 1950s, almost all milk in the United States was packaged in square cartons.