Dispatch vs. Post: What's the Difference?

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

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

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

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

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

A terminal of a battery.

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

(Sports) A goal post.

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

The starting point at a racetrack.

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

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.

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

An electronic message sent to and displayed on an online forum

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

A military base.

(transitive) 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.

(transitive) To rid; to free.

A local organization of military veterans.

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

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

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

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

To hurry.

(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 deprive.

A position of employment, especially an appointed public office.

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.

A place to which someone is assigned for duty.

The act of doing something quickly.

A trading post.

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

A postal system.

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

A post office.

(obsolete) A dismissal.

A delivery or amount of mail

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

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

To rid; to free.

A rider on such a mail route; a courier.

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

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

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

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

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

To announce by or as if by posters

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

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

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

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

Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

To denounce publicly

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

To publish (a name) on a list.

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.

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

A message transmitted by telegraph.

To assign to a specific position or station

An official report (usually sent in haste)

To appoint to a naval or military command.

The act of sending off something

To put forward; present

The property of being prompt and efficient;

Chiefly British To mail (a letter or package).

Killing a person or animal

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

Send away towards a designated goal

To inform of the latest news

Complete or carry out;

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

Kill intentionally and with premeditation;

To make the necessary entries in (a ledger).

Dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently;

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

Kill without delay;

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;