Unposted vs. Post — What's the Difference?
By Tayyaba Rehman & Urooj Arif — Updated on May 6, 2024
Unposted refers to content not yet shared or made public, primarily in digital contexts; post involves sharing content on a platform or sending mail.
Difference Between Unposted and Post
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Key Differences
In the digital realm, unposted generally describes content that has been created but not yet shared publicly on social media or blogs, whereas post refers to content that has already been uploaded or published for public viewing.
Unposted materials might be drafts or private communications, while posts are public and subject to engagement from viewers or followers. Unposted content is often in the review or editing phase, on the other hand, posts are final and reflect the sender's or creator's intent to communicate.
Unposted information remains within the control of its creator, whereas once posted, control can be limited, especially in terms of distribution and interaction.
In a more traditional sense, unposted can refer to mail not yet sent, while to post means to send mail through a postal service, marking a transition from private to public handling.
Comparison Chart
Definition
Not shared or made public
Shared or made public
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Phase
Draft or preparation
Final and public
Control
Controlled by creator
Control often shifts
Public Interaction
None until shared
Subject to public interaction
Traditional Meaning
Mail not yet sent
Mail sent through postal service
Compare with Definitions
Unposted
Kept in draft form, not finalized.
The article remained unposted as it needed further review.
Post
To make something public on a digital platform.
She decided to post her vacation photos on Instagram.
Unposted
Not made public or shared.
She decided to keep the photo unposted after considering her privacy.
Post
To send mail through the postal service.
He went to post his ballot for the upcoming election.
Unposted
Not sent or mailed, in traditional terms.
The letters sat unposted in his desk drawer for weeks.
Post
To publish content or updates.
The company posts weekly updates on their website.
Unposted
Not recorded in a formal or official system.
Many transactions were unposted, causing discrepancies in the account.
Post
To place in a specified position.
They posted guards at every entrance.
Unposted
Withheld from a scheduled or expected action.
His promotion was unposted at the last minute due to budget cuts.
Post
To record in an account.
The clerk posted each transaction meticulously.
Unposted
Not posted; unsent, unmailed.
Post
A long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker
Follow the blue posts until the track meets a road
Unposted
Not assigned to a military post.
Post
A piece of writing, image, or other item of content published online, typically on a blog or social media website or application
In a recent post, he cautioned investors to be wary of these predictions
Post
The official service or system that delivers letters and parcels
The tickets are in the post
Winners will be notified by post
Post
Each of a series of couriers who carried mail on horseback between fixed stages.
Post
A position of paid employment; a job
He resigned from the post of Foreign Minister
A teaching post
Post
A place where someone is on duty or where a particular activity is carried out
A customs post
A shift worker asleep at his post
Post
The status or rank of full-grade captain in the Royal Navy
Captain Miller was made post in 1796
Post
Display (a notice) in a public place
A curt notice had been posted on the door
Post
Announce or publish (something, especially a financial result)
The company posted a £460,000 loss
Post
(of a player or team) achieve or record (a particular score or result)
Smith and Lamb posted a century partnership
Post
Send (a letter or parcel) via the postal system
Post off your order form today
I've just been to post a letter
Post
(in bookkeeping) enter (an item) in a ledger
Post the transaction in the second column
Initial records kept in day books are periodically posted to accounts
Post
Travel with relays of horses
We posted in an open carriage
Post
Send (someone) to a place to take up an appointment
He was posted to Washington as military attaché
Post
With haste
Come now, come post
Post
Subsequent to; after
American poetry post the 1950s hasn't had the same impact
Post
A long piece of wood or other material set upright into the ground to serve as a marker or support.
Post
A support for a beam in the framework of a building.
Post
A terminal of a battery.
Post
(Sports) A goal post.
Post
The starting point at a racetrack.
Post
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.
Post
An electronic message sent to and displayed on an online forum
Ignored several inflammatory posts.
Post
A military base.
Post
The grounds and buildings of a military base.
Post
A local organization of military veterans.
Post
Either of two bugle calls in the British Army, sounded in the evening as a signal to retire to quarters.
Post
An assigned position or station, as of a guard or sentry.
Post
(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.
Post
A position of employment, especially an appointed public office.
Post
A place to which someone is assigned for duty.
Post
A trading post.
Post
A postal system.
Post
A post office.
Post
A delivery or amount of mail
Waiting for the morning's post to arrive.
Post
One of a series of relay stations along a fixed route, furnishing fresh riders and horses for the delivery of mail on horseback.
Post
A rider on such a mail route; a courier.
Post
To display (an announcement) in a place of public view.
Post
To cover (a wall, for example) with posters.
Post
To announce by or as if by posters
Post banns.
Post
(Computers) To make (an electronic message) available by sending it to an online forum
Posted a response to a question about car engines.
Post
To put up signs on (property) warning against trespassing.
Post
To denounce publicly
Post a man as a thief.
Post
To publish (a name) on a list.
Post
(Games) To gain (points or a point) in a game or contest; score.
Post
To assign to a specific position or station
Post a sentry at the gate.
Post
To appoint to a naval or military command.
Post
To put forward; present
Post bail.
Post
Chiefly British To mail (a letter or package).
Post
(Archaic) To send by mail in a system of relays on horseback.
Post
To inform of the latest news
Keep us posted.
Post
To transfer (an item) to a ledger in bookkeeping.
Post
To make the necessary entries in (a ledger).
Post
(Computers) To enter (a unit of information) on a record or into a section of storage.
Post
To travel in stages or relays.
Post
To travel with speed or in haste.
Post
To bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.
Post
With great speed; rapidly.
Post
By post horse.
Post
A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
Ram a post into the ground
Post
(construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
Post
A pole in a battery.
Post
(dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
Post
A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
Post
A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
Post
(sports) A goalpost.
Post
A location on a basketball court near the basket.
Post
(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
Post
The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
Post
(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.
Post
(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
A stage or railway post
Post
A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
Post
Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
Post
An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
Sent via post; parcel post
Post
A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
Post
A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
Post
(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.
Two of the receivers ran post patterns.
Post
(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
Post
(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
Post
An assigned station; a guard post.
Post
An appointed position in an organization, job.
Post
Post-production.
We'll fix it in post
Post
A post mortem investigation of body's cause of death.
Post
(transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
Post no bills.
Post
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
To post someone for cowardice
Post
(accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
Post
To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
Post
To pay down (the stake).
Post
To pay (a blind).
Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.
Post
To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
Post
To travel quickly; to hurry.
Post
To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.
Post
(horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
Post
(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.
Post
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
Post
To assign to a station; to set; to place.
Post a sentinel in front of the door.
Post
With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
Post
Sent via the postal service.
Post
After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
Post
Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
Post
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.
They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses.
Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore,The gates of Azza, post and massy bar.
Unto his order he was a noble post.
Post
The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
When God sends coinI will discharge your post.
Post
The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.
Post
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.
In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.
I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,Receiving them from such a worthless post.
Post
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.
I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post.
Post
Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
Post
One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.
He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.
Post
A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
The post of honor is a private station.
Post
A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
Post
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.
Post
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
On pain of being posted to your sorrowFail not, at four, to meet me.
Post
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
Post
To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
Post
To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
You have not posted your books these ten years.
Post
To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
Post
To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; - often with up.
Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day.
Post
To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
And post o'er land and ocean without rest.
Post
To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
Post
With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
Post
The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand;
A soldier manned the entrance post
A sentry station
Post
Military installation at which a body of troops is stationed;
This military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby
There is an officer's club on the post
Post
A job in an organization;
He occupied a post in the treasury
Post
An upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position;
He set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them
Post
United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)
Post
United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)
Post
United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)
Post
Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered;
Your mail is on the table
Is there any post for me?
She was opening her post
Post
A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track);
A pair of posts marked the goal
The corner of the lot was indicated by a stake
Post
The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office;
The mail handles billions of items every day
He works for the United States mail service
In England they call mail `the post'
Post
The delivery and collection of letters and packages;
It came by the first post
If you hurry you'll catch the post
Post
Affix in a public place or for public notice;
Post a warning
Post
Publicize with, or as if with, a poster;
I'll post the news on the bulletin board
Post
Assign to a post; put into a post;
The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu
Post
Assign to a station
Post
Display, as of records in sports games
Post
Enter on a public list
Post
Transfer (entries) from one account book to another
Post
Ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
Post
Mark with a stake;
Stake out the path
Post
Put up;
Post a sign
Post a warning at the dump
Post
Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;
Send me your latest results
I'll mail you the paper when it's written
Post
Mark or expose as infamous;
She was branded a loose woman
Common Curiosities
What does it mean when something is unposted on social media?
Unposted on social media means the content is created but not shared publicly.
How does posting differ when it comes to emails versus social media?
Posting on social media means publicly sharing content, whereas in emails, posting is not a term typically used.
Is it possible to unpost something once it has been posted?
In digital contexts, yes, users can often delete or remove posts, but this might not erase all traces of the content.
How do businesses use posting for communication?
Businesses use posting to disseminate information, updates, or advertisements to engage with their audience.
What does it mean to post a letter?
To post a letter means to send it through the postal system so it can be delivered to its intended recipient.
How does the process of posting affect the visibility of content?
Posting increases content visibility, making it accessible to a wider audience.
Does posting require internet access?
Yes, posting on digital platforms requires internet access; however, posting mail only requires access to postal services.
What are some reasons people might choose to keep a post unposted?
Privacy concerns, quality control, or reconsideration of the content’s impact might lead someone to keep a post unposted.
What does it mean to post a transaction?
To post a transaction means to record it in a financial system or ledger.
Can unposted content be viewed by others?
No, unposted content cannot be viewed by others as it is not shared.
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Tayyaba RehmanTayyaba Rehman is a distinguished writer, currently serving as a primary contributor to askdifference.com. As a researcher in semantics and etymology, Tayyaba's passion for the complexity of languages and their distinctions has found a perfect home on the platform. Tayyaba delves into the intricacies of language, distinguishing between commonly confused words and phrases, thereby providing clarity for readers worldwide.
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