Dispatch vs. Post — What's the Difference?

Send off to a destination or for a purpose

A long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker

Deal with (a task or opponent) quickly and efficiently

A piece of writing, image, or other item of content published online, typically on a blog or social media website or application

The sending of someone or something to a destination or for a purpose

The official service or system that delivers letters and parcels

An official report on state or military affairs

Each of a series of couriers who carried mail on horseback between fixed stages.

The killing of someone or something

A position of paid employment; a job

To relegate to a specific destination or send on specific business.

A place where someone is on duty or where a particular activity is carried out

A written message, particularly an official communication, sent with speed.

The status or rank of full-grade captain in the Royal Navy

An important message sent by a diplomat or an officer in the armed forces.

Display (a notice) in a public place

A news item sent to a news organization, as by a correspondent.

Announce or publish (something, especially a financial result)

(transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.

(of a player or team) achieve or record (a particular score or result)

(transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.

Send (a letter or parcel) via the postal system

(transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.

(in bookkeeping) enter (an item) in a ledger

(transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.

Travel with relays of horses

(transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

Send (someone) to a place to take up an appointment

(transitive) To rid; to free.

With haste

(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.

Subsequent to; after

To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).

A long piece of wood or other material set upright into the ground to serve as a marker or support.

To hurry.

A support for a beam in the framework of a building.

To deprive.

A terminal of a battery.

A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.

(Sports) A goal post.

The act of doing something quickly.

The starting point at a racetrack.

A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.

The slender barlike part of a stud earring that passes through the ear and is secured at the back with a small cap or clip.

(computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.

An electronic message sent to and displayed on an online forum

(obsolete) A dismissal.

A military base.

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

The grounds and buildings of a military base.

To rid; to free.

A local organization of military veterans.

To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.

Either of two bugle calls in the British Army, sounded in the evening as a signal to retire to quarters.

To send off or away; - particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.

An assigned position or station, as of a guard or sentry.

To send out of the world; to put to death.

(Basketball) A position usually taken by the center close to the basket or below the foul line, serving as the focus of the team's offense.

To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.

A position of employment, especially an appointed public office.

The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

A place to which someone is assigned for duty.

Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

A trading post.

The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.

A postal system.

A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; - often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.

A post office.

A message transmitted by telegraph.

A delivery or amount of mail

An official report (usually sent in haste)

One of a series of relay stations along a fixed route, furnishing fresh riders and horses for the delivery of mail on horseback.

The act of sending off something

A rider on such a mail route; a courier.

The property of being prompt and efficient;

To display (an announcement) in a place of public view.

Killing a person or animal

To cover (a wall, for example) with posters.

Send away towards a designated goal

To announce by or as if by posters

Complete or carry out;

(Computers) To make (an electronic message) available by sending it to an online forum

Kill intentionally and with premeditation;

To put up signs on (property) warning against trespassing.

Dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently;

To denounce publicly

Kill without delay;

To publish (a name) on a list.

(Games) To gain (points or a point) in a game or contest; score.

To assign to a specific position or station

To appoint to a naval or military command.

To put forward; present

Chiefly British To mail (a letter or package).

(Archaic) To send by mail in a system of relays on horseback.

To inform of the latest news

To transfer (an item) to a ledger in bookkeeping.

To make the necessary entries in (a ledger).

(Computers) To enter (a unit of information) on a record or into a section of storage.

To travel in stages or relays.

To travel with speed or in haste.

To bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.

With great speed; rapidly.

By post horse.

A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

(construction) A stud; a two-by-four.

A pole in a battery.

(dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.

A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.

A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.

(sports) A goalpost.

A location on a basketball court near the basket.

(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

The vertical part of a crochet stitch.

(obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route.

(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.

An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.

A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.

A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.

(American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.

(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.

An assigned station; a guard post.

An appointed position in an organization, job.

Post-production.

A post mortem investigation of body's cause of death.

(transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

(accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.

To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.

To pay down (the stake).

To pay (a blind).

To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.

To travel quickly; to hurry.

To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.

(horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.

(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.

To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.

To assign to a station; to set; to place.

With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.

Sent via the postal service.

After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house.

The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.

A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.

An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.

Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.

A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.

A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.

To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills.

To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.

To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.

To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.

To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.

To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.

To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; - often with up.

To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.

To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.

With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.

The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand;

Military installation at which a body of troops is stationed;

A job in an organization;

An upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position;

United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)

United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)

United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)

Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered;

A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track);

The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office;

The delivery and collection of letters and packages;

Affix in a public place or for public notice;

Publicize with, or as if with, a poster;

Assign to a post; put into a post;

Assign to a station

Display, as of records in sports games

Enter on a public list

Transfer (entries) from one account book to another

Ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait

Mark with a stake;

Put up;

Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;

Mark or expose as infamous;