Delivered Milk

I think this is the right place to post this....

I need some advise please.

We get our milk delivered 4 times a week, which I love. 

For about the last 2 weeks I've had a super duper hard a** magpie breaking into one of the pints of milk and taking his fill.   
Now normally I wouldn't mind this, but the bird isn't paying his/her fair share of the milk so I need to put a stop to it. 

As he/she is managing to get to the milk before I do at 6am, any suggestions as to what I can do to stop this bird from nicking my milk?   I'm tired of having to throw away a full pint of milk just cause some bird can't be asked to get their own. 

Have you tired calling the delivery company? They may have had this trouble in the past and have some suggestions. If not you could always put out a small plastic owl, not sure if this works on magpies, but many do it here to keep birds out of their veggie gardens.

What about getting a plastic storage box of some sort and asking the delivery person to put the milk in it?

Can you put out a container to put the milk bottles in?  I'm sure the milk man wouldn't mind putting them in there for you.

Anne, you beat me to it!!!

Our Uncle has plastic cups the milkman will turn on top of the foil tops...

I worry more about drunken students around here!

Our Uncle has plastic cups the milkman will turn on top of the foil tops...

I worry more about drunken students around here!

Damn never thought about. such a simple idea as well...must remember that. Thanks.

now those drunken students....foil...cups....wire.....mains....elec tricity....you'd have to make sure you remembered!!!

or if your less into the death to milk rustlers thing...set out a bottle of chocolate milk...made with ex-lax!!

yea I know i got a viscious streak but my brain was formed through boredom and  growing up poor in long hot humid summers in the backwaters of ms. Heat does things to a young boy....  that's my excuse 

Our Uncle has plastic cups the milkman will turn on top of the foil tops...

Gave this a shot as I had some plastic pint pots in the garage from a bbq a few summers ago and it worked a treat!

Thanks everyone for the ideas.   

I noticed that our Kirby & Weston have special plastic containers in which to put the bottles.  they fit two bottles exactly and they have the K&W logo on it. 

The milk delivery in my neighbourhood isnt in bottles... they're in waxed cartons (like the type that half gallons of milk used to come in in the US).