Sending SMS/text - how do I know it has been delivered?

I send a text message ( SMS ) with my iPhone.
It's coming up as a green field to the right in messages.
How do I know it has actually been delivered to the person I'm sending it too? How do I know the recipient doesn't has the phone switched off?
Is something in preferences/settings that I can set so that the iPhone will give a quick message "message delieverd to #xxxxxx" ?
Or is iPhone designed so that I just send it away and don't know if it has been received?

Thanks Malcom! I just tried inserting the short characters before the message and it works.
But it's really boring having to type *# etc in front of a text message. The iPhone keypad doesn't lend itself very well for such exercises...
But thanks a lot for pointing me to a temporary workaround.
It's a bit embarrasing for Apple that Nokias, Ericssons, Samsungs etc do this automatically and you can chose delivery report on/off in settings for all these phones. But with Apple iPhone you have to write your own little string of code to get this basic functionality...
YOu actually have to make an extra 10-15 key presses in front of EVERY sms/text message you send for this to work... Something truly time consuming and boring. When I just want to send a text-message saying "yes" I have to type in *#KV and jump between character sets etc. Not nice.
How come Apple has failed to make this central thing of SMS/text work?

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