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In article <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> dawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson) writes:
>djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel) writes:

>Granted, that might make sense.  (One possible exception to that is, if
>it were possible for you to specify the delivery mode [airmail? overland?
>each are usually options for the traditional mail, as per your own example])

>> My philosophy is that where possible the transport layer used between
>> my and my neighbor should be invisible to everyone except ourselves.
>
>A valid opinion.  Not one that I share, however.  Why should such info
>not be a matter of public record, so that time-to-delivery could be properly
>computed?  (Of course, other schemes could be suggested...)

Interestingly enough the physical transport used by Couriers and postal
authorities is no longer being guaranteed. 

For example in Canada both Canada Post and Loomis Couriers have been 
accused of fraud by using trucks to delivery high priority mail/shipments.

Both have responded that they are no longer selling "air" mail/shipment
but a delivery timeframe. And if they can meet that delivery time with
something other than an air shipment they will do so.

This means that if you send a parcel with priority from Vancouver to 
Edmonton (about 800 miles) it will probably go air if it's Monday to
Thursday. But Friday and Saturday they'll probably put it on a truck
to get there for Monday.

As the email networks grow it will become harder to control *how* your
email get's transported. And hopefully as long as it get's there 
quickly and efficently we shouldn't have to care. 

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