Post, POST, or posting may refer to:

Postal services

  • Mail, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries
  • An Post, the Irish national postal service
  • Canada Post, Canadian postal service
  • Deutsche Post, German postal service
  • Iraqi Post, Iraqi postal service
  • Russian Post, Russian postal service
  • Hotel post, a service formerly offered by remote Swiss hotels for the carriage of mail to the nearest official post office
  • United States Postal Service or USPS
  • Parcel post, a postal service for mail that is heavier than ordinary letters

Work

  • Post, a job or occupation

Newspaper

  • The Manica Post Regional newspaper in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe
  • The Rakyat Post Malaysian online daily newspaper
  • Bangkok Post English language newspaper in Thailand

Architecture and structures

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

Military

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

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, musician
  • C.W. Post, founder of Post Cereal
  • George Edward Post, American botanist

Dentistry

  • Post and core, a type of dental restoration

Organology

  • Key post, a mechanical fixed part of woodwind 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-, a 2018 album by Jeff Rosenstock

Periodicals

  • Australasian Post, a defunct Australian weekly magazine
  • Post Magazine, a British magazine first published in 1840
  • The Post (disambiguation), a list of newspapers
  • The Saturday Evening Post, an American magazine

Other uses in media

  • Post, an alternative name for a hanger (barbershop music)
  • Post Records, a record label
  • Post, a prominent musical change during the intro of a recording, as used in the production of radio programming
  • Post-production

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
  • Physician Orders and Scope of Treatment or POST, in Tennessee, similar to POLST Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
  • 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, formerly known as C.W. Post.
  • 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

  • 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
  • Post, a method of horseback riding at the trot
  • Post, a shortened name of goalpost usually used in American football.

Time

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

  • post-acute, see AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
  • 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

  • Hitching post (disambiguation)
  • La Poste (disambiguation)
  • Pole (disambiguation)
  • Poste (disambiguation)
  • Old Post (disambiguation)
  • Posthaste, a 2012 album by the band OHMphrey
  • Posting (laundering process), or postadh, a traditional Scottish method of washing clothes