Posting a shuttle

What do you understand by the term 'posting'?

The first time I came across this term in tatting it pertained to dropping (or posting) the shuttle through a ring before closing it. This was supposed to make the ring more of a truly round shape rather than tear drop (doesn't always work that way), and it was supposed to make the ring easier to open in case of the need to retrotat (I could never tell any difference). I haven't seen or heard of any other meaning for 'posting' a shuttle.

I agree with @Lynn. As far as I know, one usually deposits the other/2nd/auxiliary shuttle through the ring before closing it.
It works in very specific situations for me :

1. Teri Dusenbury's SQDR (split quadruple directional rings) where the ring twists if shuttle is not posted. (http://www.tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.in/2014/07/tatting-away-ii.html)

2. Interlaced Rings

3. In Ninetta's small Curled Rings or Alternate Methods of Curling Rings
   My 'post' !

4. If I Deliberately want the slight layered overlap between rings/elements . I had tried this in 2014 while working with 2 silk threads
   

5. Ninetta's Tiny Tatted Beads

6. Interlocking Rings using shuttle

7. Celtic tatting perhaps

While 'posting a shuttle' usually refers to dropping it through a closing ring, in a sense the movement is performed when encapsulating the other shuttle thread in a join such as CWJ, LHP, S2LHP, etc. or perhaps SCMR when shuttle is 'posted' through a loop.

Am I overthinking again ?!

I thought that posting was to help make the ring look uniformed. You did your stitches then added the 1st half of a double stitch, then dropped the shuttle thru before closing. I have not found that it either make the ring easier to open or make the look of the ring lay more uniform. But, It may be just me

Thank you for your thoughts and explanations, Lynn, Muskaan and Eagle. I agree with them.

Has anyone (particularly in the USA) ever heard 'posting the shuttle' applied to winding or loading a shuttle with thread? My reason for asking this is a recent article in the Ring of Tatters' Newsletter.

You know me, curious about terminology.

I am in the USA. The terminology "posting a shuttle" is new to me in any context. At the same time, I think that my pre-Craftree self lived in a pretty insulated and/or isolated bubble

No, I have never heard it before for loading thread. But different areas of the world use words differently. Isn't Ring of Tatters mostly (don't gripe at me) English "meaning" Proper? I hope you know what I mean. In reading old lit. the English language was used "spoken" differently.

My only association with "posting" is to drop the the shuttle from front to back through a ring with all the correct amount of DS before closing the ring. I don't add any partial DS before closing the ring.

in reply to JudithConnors's post:

I've never heard this application of the term, Judith. I wonder if someone misused the term and it got overlooked in the proof reading.

in reply to Eagle's post:

I agree that different cultures vary in expressions, but this article had been sent in by someone from the US. Hence my query. Perhaps it is a 'one-off obscure' usage?