Comments on: Registered cover from Malaysia with bird stamps

By: tsungfei

tsungfei — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:22:05 +0000

Hi Keijo,

Yeah they are sort of treated like valid “stamps” by the postal authority in Malaysia.

By: Keijo

Keijo — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 05:28:00 +0000

Thanks for the explanation Tsung Fei.

But doesn’t this mean that Malaysian R-labels are essentially stamps (as they are used to pay and indicate postage costs)

If so, I assume they should be listed in stamp catalogs LOL.

By: tsungfei

tsungfei — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:25:22 +0000

Hi Keijo,

The sender is given a sticker which has the price tag for the cost of registration (don’t remember the exact one but probably around RM 3). So if the total postage is > RM 3 (say RM 5), you just need to put RM 2 worth of postage stamps on the cover. If the total postage is < RM 3, no stamps are needed.

By: FRED MUGURUZA

FRED MUGURUZA — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:27:06 +0000

Thinking the worst…probably (I am not sure)the money paid for the registered mail goes to the pocket of someone…
As people have a saying: alas! bureaucrazy has to be beaten by corruption…thou!
Note: Beware of wikileaks!

By: Keijo

Keijo — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:50:54 +0000

Hi Terrence,

OK… Here’s a question. Why is there no indication of the paid registration fee?

If I send a R-cover from Finland to Malaysia, I must stick stamps (or similar) worth of the registration fee on top of it (in addition of normal postage costs). And I have a pretty good gut feeling that this is how things are done in most (if not all) countries. However, this cover did not have anything else than 2.50 ringgits worth of stamps and the blanco R/Recommende sticker. So what happened to rest of stamps? Or does Pos Malaysia allow this kind of practise?