Post, POST, or posting may refer to:

Postal services

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 Mail, postal services in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. An Post provides a "universal postal service" to all parts of the country as a member of the Universal Postal Union. Services provide ...

, the Irish national postal service **

Canada Post Canada Post Corporation (, trading as Canada Post (), is a Canadian Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the operating name of the Post Office Department of the Can ...

, Canadian postal service **

Deutsche Post (, ) is a brand of the DHL Group (listed as ), used for its domestic mail services in Germany. The services offered under the brand are those of a traditional mail service, making the brand the successor of the former state-owned mail monopoly ...

, 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 * Postage stamps and postal history of Iraq This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal h ...

, Iraqi postal service **

Russian Post Russian Post ( rus, Почта России, a=RU-Почта России.wav, ''Pochta Rossii'') is an List of legal entity types by country#Russia, Aktsionernoye Obschestvo (AO, private limited company)Hotel post Hotel Post was a service offered by remote Switzerland, 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 are ...

, 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 simply the Postal Service, is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the executive branch of the federal governmen ...

or USPS **

Parcel post Parcel post is a postal service for mail that is too heavy for normal letter post. It is usually slower than letter post. The development of the parcel post is closely connected with the development of the railway network which enabled parcels to ...

, a postal service for mail that is heavier than ordinary letters

Work

* Post, a

job Work, labor (labour in Commonwealth English), occupation or job is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and desires of themselves, other people, or organizations. In the context of economics, work can be seen as the huma ...

or occupation

Newspaper

* '' The Manica Post'' Regional newspaper in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe * ''

The Rakyat Post ''The Rakyat Post'' (TRP) is an online newspaper in Malaysia. It was founded in 2013, but ceased operations as a news portal in 2016. In April 2019, it was relaunched as a non-news media organisation under different ownership and management. ...

'' Malaysian online daily newspaper * ''

Bangkok Post The ''Bangkok Post'' is an English-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand. It is published in broadsheet and digital formats. The first issue was sold on 1 August 1946. It had four pages and cost one baht, a considerable amount ...

'' English language newspaper in Thailand

Architecture and structures

Lamppost A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, 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 b ...

, a raised source of light on the edge of a road *

Post (structural) A post is a main vertical or leaning support in a structure similar to a column or pillar, the term post generally refers to a timber but may be metal or stone. A stud in wooden or metal building construction is similar but lighter duty than a pos ...

, timber framing *

Post and lintel Post and lintel (also called prop and lintel, a trabeated system, or a trilithic 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 ...

, a building system *

Scratch post A scratching post is a wooden post covered in rough material that cat owners provide so their pets have an acceptable place to scratch. The most common type consists of a wooden post, roughly tall, covered in rough fabric or sisal. The post is ...

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 t ...

Trading post A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded. Typically a trading post allows people from one geogr ...

Utility pole A utility pole, commonly referred to as a transmission pole, telephone pole, telecommunication pole, power pole, hydro pole, telegraph pole, or telegraph post, is a column or post used to support overhead power lines and various other public util ...

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) In military terminology, an outpost is a location where detachments of military personnel are stationed at a distance from the main armed force or formation in a region. Outposts are usually located in remote or sparsely populated areas, pos ...

, a military outpost **Guardpost, or

guardhouse A guardhouse (also known as a watch house, guard building, guard booth, guard shack, security booth, security building, or sentry building) is a building used to house Security guard, personnel and security equipment. Guardhouses have histori ...

Geography

Post, Iran Post () is a village in Beradust Rural District, Sumay-ye Beradust District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It bor ...

, 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. Pos ...

, a community at the geographic center of the U.S. state of Oregon *

Post, Texas Post is a city in and the county seat of Garza County, Texas, Garza County, Texas, United States. Its population was 4,790 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. According to 2023 census estimates, the city is estimated to have a populati ...

, 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), Germa ...

Post Malone Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. His music blends various genres including hip-hop, Pop music, pop, Contemporary R&B, R&B, Tra ...

, musician * C.W. Post, founder of Post Cereal *

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 botanist

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, w ...

, 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 Ree ...

keywork system

Arts, entertainment, and media

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) is the third solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Jeff Rosenstock, released on January 1, 2018, without any promotional lead-up. The album was released on Polyvinyl Record Co. in the United States and ...

'', a 2018 album by Jeff Rosenstock

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 Victori ...

'', a defunct Australian weekly magazine *''

Post Magazine ''Post Magazine'' is a British magazine. It first appeared on Saturday 25 July 1840, just seven months after the introduction of the Penny Post postal system and was the first publication anywhere in the world to be sent by post hence its na ...

'', a British magazine first published in 1840 *

The Post (disambiguation) The Post may refer to: Newspapers United States * ''New York Post'' * ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' * ''The Denver Post'' * The Post (Ohio newspaper), ''The Post'' (Ohio newspaper) * ''The Washington Post'' Elsewhere * ''Post Newspapers'', Austral ...

, a list of newspapers *''

The Saturday Evening Post ''The Saturday Evening Post'' is an American magazine published six times a year. It was published weekly from 1897 until 1963, and then every other week until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influ ...

'', an American magazine

Other uses in media

*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 th ...

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, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state span ...

, 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 Radio programming is the process of organising a schedule of radio content for commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting by radio stations. History The original inventors of radio, from Guglielmo Marconi's time on, expected it to be use ...

Post-production Post-production, also known simply as post, is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, audio production, and photography. Post-production includes all stages of production occurring after principal photography or recording indivi ...

Communications

*Post, an entry in a blog or an Internet forum; see

posting style When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles. The main options are interleaved posting (also called inline replying, in which the d ...

Part-of-speech tagging In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging, PoS tagging, or POST), also called grammatical tagging, is the process of marking up a word in a text ( corpus) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its defini ...

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 and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it c ...

, 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 request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web. By design, the POST request method requests that a web server accepts the data enclosed in the body of the request message, most likely for storing it. It is o ...

, an HTTP request method * .post, the internet top-level domain *

Power-on self-test A power-on self-test (POST) is a process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on. POST processes may set the initial state of the device from firmware and detec ...

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, on Long Island. It is part of Long Island University (LIU), and the largest school in the ...

, 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. The university offers over 25 undergraduate and graduate programs in day, evening, and online courses. History Post Univer ...

, 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 an impartial research and knowledge exchange service based in the Parliament of the United Kingdom POST serves both Houses of Parliament (the House of Commons and the House of Lords). ...

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's mission is to protect open space on the Peninsula and in the South Bay for the benefit of all. The organization has b ...

, a land trust in California *

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

, a consumer packaged goods holding company **

Post Cereals Post Consumer Brands, LLC (previously Post Cereals and Postum Cereals; also known simply as Post) is an American consumer packaged goods food manufacturer headquartered in Lakeville, Minnesota. The company, founded in 1895 by C. W. Post, own ...

, a packaged food subsidiary of Post Holdings

Sports

Post (basketball) Basketball is a sport with five players on the court for each team at a time. Each player is assigned to different positions defined by the strategic role they play. Guard, forward and center are the three main position categories. The standard ...

, 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 The is a baseball player transfer system that operates between Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). Despite the drafting of the United States – Japanese Player Contract Agreement, unveiled in 1967 to regulate ...

, 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 The trot is a two-beat diagonal horse gait where the diagonal pairs of legs move forward at the same time with a moment of suspension between each beat. It has a wide variation in possible speeds, but averages about . A very slow trot is som ...

*Post, a shortened name of

goalpost In sport, a goal may refer to either an instance of scoring, or to the physical structure or area where an attacking team must send the ball or puck in order to score points. The structure of a goal varies from sport to sport, and one is pl ...

usually used in American football.

Time

The prefix "post" means after, aftermath, or afterward, e.g., *

Jus post bellum ''Jus post bellum'' ( ; Latin for "Justice after war") is a concept that deals with the morality of the termination phase of war, including the responsibility to rebuild. The idea has some historical pedigree as a concept in just war theory. In ...

, "morality after war" * Postbellum, a period after a war *

Post mortem An autopsy (also referred to as 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; ...

, an autopsy or recap *

Post-World War II The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two global superpowers, the United States (U.S.) and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). The aftermath of World War II was also defined by the rising threat of nuclear warfare, the creation and implementati ...

, the period following World War II