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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!sl
- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:29:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0Lvpo.Gr5@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <dgjTrATKBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us>
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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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