Post-horses would be hired from a postmaster at a post house. The postmaster would reside in the post house. The building is unow a private home called the Old Post House. The postmaster would reside in a "post house". The building housing the observatory was originally a post house constructed in 1730. The family seat is The Old Post House, in Ropley, Hampshire. The LA-based post house Laser Edit also had an in-house system using recordable random-access LaserDiscs.