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We have words **ペット** 、 **ベッド** 、 **ファックス** 、 **ピクニック**.

The symbol **ッ** usually is indicated for doubling consonants or to indicate a
closed syllable.

The question is why the word post (ポスト) was written without **ッ** before ト?

Cause this word has a closed syllable too. In which cases should I use **ッ**
for indication of a closed syllable?
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How to understand usage of ツ in words with a closed syllable?
It is usually used before consonants that are categorized in phonetics as
plosives or stops, affricates, and unvoiced fricatives, or more precisely
unvoiced sibilants.

Stops: the initial sounds of か /k/, が /g/, た /t/, だ /d/, ぱ /p/, and ば /b/

Affricates: the initial sounds of ち /tɕ/, じ or ぢ /dʑ/, つ /ts/, and ず or づ /dz/

Unvoiced sibilants: the initial sound of さ /s/ and し /ɕ/

The initial sounds of は /h/, ひ /ç/, and ふ /ɸ/ are also unvoiced fricatives,
but (not being sibilants) they are usually not used with a small っ, at least
not in Japanese words.

How foreign words are spelled is rather arbitrary as you can see in the pair
of バッグ (bag) and バグ (bug). The reason ポスト has no small ッ is probably because
the vowel in “post” is a so-called “long” vowel and it doesn’t sound like ポッスト
to a Japanese ear. (ポスット is even less likely.) In addition, the /s/ sound,
unlike /t/, /p/, etc., doesn’t usually require a small っ unless it is followed
by a vowel. For example, “bus” is spelled バス and “pass” as パス, whereas
“message” is written メッセージ. There are a few exceptions to this rule as “kiss”
may be spelled either キス or キッス. The latter sounds a bit comical.

In some foreign names or words, a small ッ appears before a sound that is
usually not used with it, as in バッハ (Bach), ハインリッヒ (Heinrich), カペッロ (Capello),
etc.
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