Post
Post noun - Communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system.
Sentry
Sentry noun - A person or group that watches over someone or something.
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- In Monstrous Regiment, Sergeant Jackrum says to a sentry who has left her post, "I must have bleeding good eyesight because I know for a fact you are on sentry duty over by those trees."
Source: I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That -
Also, a sentry recounts how his father once kicked Jackrum in the nadgers during a post-battle pub brawl, but Jackrum kept right on fighting.
Source: Discworld / Monstrous Regiment -
Having captured Pat, Klang dresses him a Japanese uniform, gags him and ties him to a post so he looks like a sentry in the fake camp the Dragon Lady is about to attack.
Source: Disguised Hostage Gambit
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