Bad time to sell Girl Scout cookies

The Daily Herald, in its recent Saturday Soapbox, recommended that the members of the Girl Scouts do their own delivery of cookies. I would like to point out that this organization shows it lacks common sense in this annual fundraiser.

Many of us remember girls going door to door in the springtime, and we were happy to support their efforts. I was contacted by my neighbor this year on Jan. 8, one of the coldest days this winter, asking me to purchase cookies. How many of us appreciate standing at the open door of our homes with frigid air pouring in, while we decide which cookies to buy? How many parents of Girl Scouts want to make their way through snow and ice with their children to go door to door to sell cookies?

The editors of the Herald would have these girls, some of whom are as young as 7 or 8, trudge through snow or ice perhaps the middle of next month to deliver them? You are as ignorant as the organization that sponsors this sale.

My suggestion is that the Girl Scouts return this fundraiser to the spring. Perhaps cookie sales will increase, and they can do away with the fall fundraiser of candy and nuts that they instituted a couple of years ago. Children should not have to be nonstop, door-to-door salespeople.

Suzanne G. Hlotke

Carol Stream