Mail realized as an ever-important generator of extra revenue for airlines, even though for the past 13 months revenue has been cut about in half by post-Sept. 11, 2001, security restrictions. Airliners cannot carry U.S. mail packages over 1 pound until a security screening method is in place.
Read MoreThe regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry has entered the fray over the state’s attempt to regulate the courier industry, warning that implementing draft regulations in their current form would have a severe negative effect on many of its members.
The chamber said in a letter to Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri that although commerce and industry were the biggest users of postal and courier services, there had been no attempt to consult organised business over the new provisions, which would force smaller courier companies out of business and destroy thousands of jobs.
Read MoreThe hundred-year-old principle of a postal service for all and at an accessible price is being threatened by the advance of economic liberalization, say experts gathered here for the “strategy conference” of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
Even the venerable UPU, with its 128-year history, risks disappearing — or at least losing its intergovernmental status – – in the wave of private groups that are seeking to exploit postal services.
UPU director-general Thomas E. Leavey pegged technology as one of the factors that “threatens the financial foundation of the postal service” and, as a result, the capacity to sustain the universal network of the service.
Read MoreMail from east coast states like Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang destined for districts in southern Thailand will no longer pass through Kuala Lumpur once a new arrangement is worked out with the Thai postal authorities.
According to SM Haja Alawdin Md Sulaiman, senior general manager (II) for Pos Malaysia’s business and support services, such mail will instead be transported by land through Kelantan’s Rantau Panjang, and then onto the Golok town on the Thai side for distribution to districts like Yala, Narathiwat and Patani.
Read MoreMalaysia Post senior general manager II (business and support services) SM Haja Alawdin S. Md Sulaiman said today the postal service continued to enjoy an annual growth of between three and five per cent.
“In some States, the growth is much higher. Kelantan, for example, recorded an 18 per cent growth this year,” he said.
He said Pos Malaysia was handling 3.5 million letters per day which worked out to about one billion per year.
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