{
  "id": "post.mail",
  "term": "post",
  "sense": "mail",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "verb-noun",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of matter that moves from one place to another",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "matter.substance",
      "motion.movement",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the piece of matter moves through space, becoming a mailed item",
    "novel_properties": [
      "transported object",
      "intended for delivery",
      "identifiable as mail"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Apollo 14 command module carried 278,000 pieces of mail to the Moon and back in 1971.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Pony Express delivered letters between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, from April 1860 to October 1861.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "A single USPS mail truck transported 1.2 million ballots during the 2020 U.S. election cycle.",
      "domain": "logistics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "blog.online",
    "comments.communication",
    "mail.postal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "post",
    "posted",
    "posting",
    "postings",
    "posts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-post.mail"
}