Where to put “per fax/mail in advance” in scrlttr2?

Question

If you send something with a formal/legaö letter, you may provide a copy via mail or fax or so before. If so, you usually change that copy to include something like this:

per fax followed by letter
per mail followed by letter

or:

per fax in advance
per mail in advance

If I style my letter with scrlttr2, where do I put that?
The receiver address field is bad to abuse and I only found the specialmail KOMA variable. However, this includes it at the top right of the address field and underlines it.
I guess this is supposed to be used for something else.
So could you please also explain to me, what I should use specialmail for?
What I expect
As far as I have seen in most letters these words are printed after or – more often (and I would prefer that) – one or two lines before the receiver's address.
The text is usually written -- surrounded by two or three hypens --.
So in the end, it may look like this:

-- per mail in advance --
Don Joe
c/o Some Company Org
Goodstreet 3
0283 City
Germany
Subject: Demonstration for StackExchange
Dear Mr. Joe,
[…]

esdd · Accepted Answer

If you do not use KOMA variable location yet, you can set this variable to
setkomavar{location}{-{}- per mail in advance -{}-}

Then you can adjust the position of the location field to your needs, eg:
setplength[-]{lochpos}{useplength{toaddrhpos}}
setplength{locvpos}{useplength{toaddrvpos}}
setplength{locwidth}{useplength{toaddrwidth}}
setplength[2]{locheight}{baselineskip}
addtoplength[-2]{locvpos}{baselineskip}

Example:
documentclass{scrlttr2}

%% to show the position of fields address and location:
%LoadLetterOption{visualize}
%showfields{address,location}

usepackage{blindtext}% only for dummy text

setkomavar{fromname}{rugk}
setkomavar{location}{-{}- per mail in advance -{}-}

% change the position of the location field
setplength[-]{lochpos}{useplength{toaddrhpos}}
setplength{locvpos}{useplength{toaddrvpos}}
setplength{locwidth}{useplength{toaddrwidth}}
setplength[2]{locheight}{baselineskip}
addtoplength[-2]{locvpos}{baselineskip}

begin{document}
begin{letter}{Don Joec/o Some Company OrgGoodstreet 3283 CityGermany}
opening{Dear Mr. Joe,}
blindtext
closing{Best regards}
end{letter}
end{document}

Where to put “per fax/mail in advance” in scrlttr2?

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