Post or POST commonly refers to: *

Mail The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letter (message), letters, and parcel (package), parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid ...

, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries **

An Post (; literally 'The Post') is the state-owned provider of postal services in Ireland. An Post provides a "universal postal service" to all parts of the country as a member of the Universal Postal Union. Services provided include letter post, p ...

, the Irish national postal service **

Canada Post Canada Post Corporation (french: Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (french: Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the opera ...

, Canadian postal service **

Deutsche Post The Deutsche Post AG, operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL Group, is a German multinational package delivery and supply chain management company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is one of the world's largest courier companies. T ...

, German postal service **

Iraqi Post Iraqi Post is a government-owned corporation that handles postal services in Iraq. Iraqi Post belongs to the Ministry of Communications. See also * List of postal codes in Iraq * Postage stamps and postal history of Iraq This is a survey of t ...

, Iraqi postal service ** Russian Post, Russian postal service **

Hotel post Hotel Post was a service offered by remote Swiss hotels for the carriage of mail to the nearest official post office. Origins In the nineteenth century, Switzerland developed an important tourist industry. Some hotels in remote areas that were ...

, a service formerly offered by remote Swiss hotels for the carriage of mail to the nearest official post office **

United States Postal Service The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the U ...

or USPS ** Parcel post, a postal service for mail that is heavier than ordinary letters *Post, a

job Work or labor (or labour in British English) is intentional activity people perform to support the needs and wants of themselves, others, or a wider community. In the context of economics, work can be viewed as the human activity that contr ...

or occupation Post, POST, or posting may also refer to:

Architecture and structures

Lamppost A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform. When urban electric power distribution ...

, a raised source of light on the edge of a road * Post (structural), timber framing *

Post and lintel In architecture, post and lintel (also called prop and lintel or a trabeated system) is a building system where strong horizontal elements are held up by strong vertical elements with large spaces between them. This is usually used to hold up ...

, a building system *

Steel fence post A steel fence post, also called (depending on design or country) a T-post, a Y-post, or variants on star post, is a type of fence post or picket. They are made of steel and are sometimes manufactured using durable rail steel. They can be used to ...

Trading post A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded. Typically the location of the trading post would allow people from one geographic area to tr ...

Utility pole A utility pole is a column or post typically made out of wood used to support overhead power lines and various other public utilities, such as electrical cable, optical fiber, fiber optic cable, and related equipment such as Distribution transfor ...

or utility post

Military

Military base A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations. A military base always provides accommodations for ...

, an assigned station or a guard post ** Outpost (military), a military outpost **Guardpost, or guardhouse

Geography

Post, Iran Post ( fa, پست) is a village in Beradust Rural District, Sumay-ye Beradust District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in ...

, a village in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran *

Post, Oregon Post is an unincorporated community in Crook County, Oregon, United States. It has a post office assigned the ZIP code of 97752. Post lies along Oregon Route 380 southeast of Prineville at an elevation of . Post was named for Walter H. Post, t ...

, a community at the geographic center of the U.S. state of Oregon * Post, Texas, the county seat of Garza County, Texas, United States

People

Post (surname) Post is a surname of Low German and Dutch origin. It can be either toponymic (near a post, or marker) or occupational ("messenger; courier"). People with the name Post include: *Achim Post (born 1959), German politician * (1839–1895), German ju ...

* Post Malone, a hip hop artist *

C.W. Post Charles William Post (October 26, 1854 – May 9, 1914) was an American innovator, breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer and a pioneer in the prepared-food industry. He was the founder of what is now Post Consumer Brands. Early life Char ...

, founder of Post Cereals *

George Edward Post George Edward Post (1838–1909) was an American surgeon, academic and botanist. Biography George Edward Post was born in New York City on December 17, 1838, the son of Alfred Charles Post. He was a Professor of Surgery at the Syrian Pro ...

, American surgeon, botanist (abbrev. Post), and academic

Dentistry

Post and core A post and core crown is a type of dental restoration required where there is an inadequate amount of sound tooth tissue remaining to retain a conventional crown. A post is cemented into a prepared root canal, which retains a core restoration, which ...

, a type of dental restoration

Organology

* Key post, a mechanical fixed part of

woodwind Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed ...

keywork system

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

* ''Post'' (Björk album), her second solo studio album, released in 1995 * ''Post'' (Paul Kelly album), his first solo studio album, released in 1985 *''

Post- ''Post-'' (stylized in all caps In typography, all caps (short for "all capitals") refers to text or a font in which all letters are capital letters, for example: "THIS TEXT IS IN ALL CAPS". All caps may be used for emphasis (for a word ...

'', a 2018 album by Jeff Rosenstock

Other uses in music

*Post, an alternative name for a

hanger (barbershop music) {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) A hanger, or a post, in barbershop music is a long note, held by one of the voices in the quartet, while the other voices are free to change notes, and even breathe. Hangers usually occur in the ...

Post Records Post Records is an American independent record label, which was formed by Buzz Curtis in the early 1960s. It is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, i ...

, a record label *Post, a prominent musical change during the

intro Introduction, The Introduction, Intro, or The Intro may refer to: General use * Introduction (music), an opening section of a piece of music * Introduction (writing), a beginning section to a book, article or essay which states its purpose and g ...

of a recording, as used in the production of radio programming

Periodicals

*''

Australasian Post The ''Australasian Post'', commonly called the ''Aussie Post'', was Australia's longest-running weekly picture magazine. History and profile Its origins are traceable to Saturday, 3 January 1857, when the first issue of ''Bell's Life in Victoria ...

'', a defunct Australian weekly magazine *'' Post Magazine'', a British magazine first published in 1840 *

The Post (disambiguation) The Post may refer to: Newspapers United States * ''New York Post'' * ''The Denver Post'' * The Post (Connecticut newspaper), ''The Post'' (Connecticut newspaper) * The Post (Ohio newspaper), ''The Post'' (Ohio newspaper) * The Post (Texas newspa ...

, a list of newspapers *''

The Saturday Evening Post ''The Saturday Evening Post'' is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was issued weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely c ...

'', an American magazine

Communications

*Post, an entry in a blog or an Internet forum; see posting style * Part-of-speech tagging or POST, the process of marking up a word in a text (corpus) as corresponding to a particular part of speech *

Postscript PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language. It was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Br ...

, a sentence, paragraph, or longer text addended to a main document, such as a letter

Computing and technology

POST (HTTP) In computing, POST is a HTTP#Request methods, request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web. By design, the POST request method requests that a web server accept the data enclosed in the body of the request message, most likely for ...

, an HTTP request method *

.post .post is a sponsored top-level domain (STLD) available exclusively for the postal sector. It is the first STLD to be 100% secured by DNSSEC. .post aims to integrate the physical, financial and electronic dimensions of postal services to enable a ...

, the internet top-level domain * Power-on self-test or POST, start-up routines on electronic devices, typically on computers

Education and training

LIU Post LIU Post (formally, the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, and often referred to as C.W. Post) is a private university in Brookville, New York. It is the largest campus of the private Long Island University system. The campus is name ...

, one of the two campuses of Long Island University in the U.S. state of New York, formerly known as C.W. Post. *

Peace Officer Standards and Training In the United States, certification and licensure requirements for law enforcement officers vary significantly from state to state.Jeffrey S. Magers, "Police Officer Standard and Training Commissions (POST Commissions)" in ''Encyclopedia of Law ...

or POST, state-level training program for American law-enforcement officers *

Post University Post University is a private for-profit university in Waterbury, Connecticut. It was founded in 1890 as Post College. From 1990 to 2004 it was affiliated with Teikyo University in Tokyo, Japan and during that time it was named Teikyo Post Unive ...

, a university in the U.S. state of Connecticut

Organizations and companies

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) is the Parliament of the United Kingdom's in-house source of independent, balanced and accessible analysis of public policy issues related to science and technology. POST serves both Hous ...

or POST, in the United Kingdom *

Peninsula Open Space Trust The Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) is a nonprofit land trust headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Mission and Work POST mission is to protect open space on the Peninsula and in the South Bay for the benefit of all. The organization has bee ...

, a land trust in California *

Post Holdings Post Holdings (officially Post Holdings, Inc.) is an American consumer packaged goods holding company headquartered in St Louis, Missouri with businesses operating in the center-of-the-store, refrigerated, foodservice and food ingredient categori ...

, a consumer packaged goods holding company ** Post Cereals, a packaged food subsidiary of Post Holdings

Sports

Post (basketball) In the sport of basketball, there are five players play per team, each assigned to positions. Historically, these players have been assigned, to positions defined by the role they play on the court, from a strategic point of view. The three main ...

, area near the basket in basketball *

Post (route) A route is a pattern or path that a receiver in gridiron football runs to get open for a forward pass. Routes are usually run by wide receivers, running backs and tight ends, but other positions can act as a receiver given the play. One popular ...

, route run by a receiver in American football * Posting system, transfer system for professional baseball players moving from a Japanese team to a Major League Baseball team *Post, a method of horseback riding at the trot

Time

The prefix "post" means after, aftermath, or afterward, e.g., * Jus post bellum, "morality after war" *

Postbellum may refer to: * Any post-war period or era * Post-war period following the American Civil War (1861–1865); nearly synonymous to Reconstruction era (1863–1877) * Post-war period in Peru following its defeat at the War of the Pacific (1879� ...

, a period after a war *

Post mortem An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause, mode, and manner of death or to evaluate any dis ...

, an autopsy or recap * Post-World War II, the period following World War II