[fatlazyless]

With all the success for the last ten years the United States Forest Service has had using fee deposit tubes to collect their three dollar per day, parking fee, at trail head locations throughout the White Mountain National Forest, I wonder if any of the local Lake Winnipesaukee towns ever considered using one at a town boat launch ramp?

It seems like a no-brainer to me. Just install the fee deposit tube next to the boat ramp, and start counting the money; no town employee needed to be stationed at the ramp as a fee collector because the fee deposit tube and honest boaters will partner together just like when one parks a car at a hiking trailhead, parking lot.

Hey, if it works for the Forest Service, then it should probably work for the boat ramps, too! Like I already said, it just seems like a no-brainer, and worth a trial run. What's not to work? The towns can always use a new revenue stream, and it just seems to me that they are MISSING the BOAT by NOT using a fee deposit tube, 24-7, at the local boat launch ramp.
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Want to see a photo of a fee deposit tube? Just google "fee deposit tube fabrication drawing" and a Forest Service description should be first on the list.