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Rey, <br /> <br />There ARE NO dumb questions in this forum, with few exceptions, mainly, the one you didn't ask, or the one that was just asked by someone else and you weren't paying attention to the answer. Neither of those exceptions apply here to your question. <br /> <br />I have seen both the word "dispatch" and "despatch". From my understanding of the way they were used, they are not necessarily interchangable. A "dispatch" could mean either a message or an order or a mission. A "despatch", where I've seen it used is mainly in historic novels about the Royal Navy (Horatio Hornblower, Richard Bolitho, and yes, Jack Aubrey), is the actual message. Ships' captains would report by signal flag "have despatches onboard" or "dispatches". So, my somewhat educated guess is that the "despatch" end would be where the orders for the car would be placed in a message holder that would consist of an aluminum frame and a plexiglas or plastic lens to allow the crews to see that a "despatch" was there.
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