Post

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Post or POST commonly refers to:

• Mail, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries
  • An Post, the Irish national postal service
  • Deutsche Post, German postal service
  • Hotel post, a service offered by remote Swiss hotels for the carriage of mail to the nearest official post office
  • United States Post Office or USPS
• Post, a job or occupation
• Post, a horse trot

Post or POST may also refer to:

Architecture and structures

• Post (structural), timber framing
• Lamppost, a raised source of light on the edge of a road
• Post and lintel, a building system
• Trading post
• Utility pole or utility post

Military

• Military base, an assigned station or a guard post
  • Outpost (military), a military outpost

Geography

• Post, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran
• Post, Oregon, 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 Malone, a hip hop artist

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

Computing and technology

• POST (HTTP), an HTTP request method
• .post, 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, one of the two campuses of Long Island University in the U.S. state of New York
  • C.W. Post, a university
• Peace Officer Standards and Training or POST, state-level training program for American law-enforcement officers
• Post University, a university in the U.S. state of Connecticut

Organizations and companies

• Parcel Post
• Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology or POST, in the United Kingdom
• Peninsula Open Space Trust, a land trust in California.
• Post Holdings, a consumer packaged goods holding company
  • Post Cereals, a packaged food subsidiary of Post Holdings

Sports

• Post (basketball), area near the basket in basketball
• Post (route), 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

Timing

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

• Jus post bellum, "morality after war"
• Postbellum, a period after a war
• Post mortem, an autopsy or recap
• Post-World War II, the period following World War II

See also

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