LICENSING
Any person who intends to provide postal services, including courier and express services, in Malaysia requires a license from the Minister.
The services include conveying by post all letters from one place to another whether by land, or sea or by air and performing all the incidental services of receiving, collecting, sending, dispatching and delivering all letters.
Letter means any form of written communication or other document that is directed to specific person or a specific address and is to be conveyed other than by electronic means; and includes a packet, package, wrapper or article containing any such communications.
COURIER SERVICES
The Minister may issue a licence to any person who intends to convey by post all letters from one place to another whether by land, or by sea or by air and performing all the incidental services of receiving, collecting, sending, dispatching and delivering all letters.
The licensees may provide domestic express and despatch services, international services, and transportation of letters form one place to another. The market is open for competition, and is less regulated.
Those letters falling within any of the following categories are exempted from licensing.
