Registered Mail Label - Surcharge

Malaysia - Registered Mail Label with Surcharge

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Below shows a registered mail label used in Malaysia. Two black-inked blocks appear on the label - one is on the top right corner and the other is on bottom left of the top portion of the label. The top black-inked area at the top masks the word "Track on 1" and the lower black-inked area masks the word "RM1.30".  So, it seems that this label is printed originally for Track on 1 (priced at RM1.30), but it has been altered to Track on 5 pricing at RM1.00. The wordings of Track on 5 and RM1.00 appear at the bottom of the label. Registered mail label for domestic mail (track-on 1) is of red colour as shown in the label below, and other types of registered mail labels will have different colour. However, this red-colour label was adopted (for some reasons) the use of track-on 5 (for the purposes of registered mail on traffic summons). 

Pos Malaysia uses different track-on numbers for different types of registered mail. There are so far 8 different types of track-on (1-8):

Track-on 1: domestic mail with prefix RD

Track-on 2: international mail with prefix RR

Track-on 3: haj baggage and Air Zam Zam with prefix CZ/CB

Track-on 4: Pos Malaysia matter with prefix RS

Track-on 5: traffic summons with prefix RP

Track-on 6: traffic summons with prefix RP

Track-on 7: Advice of Receipt (AR) mail with prefix RA

Track-on 8: domestic mail with prefix RY

Postcard from Zambia

This postcard was sent (postmarked) from Livingstone, Zambia on 13 November 2019, just before the pandemics of COVID-19. I received this postcard in October 2022. It took nearly 3 years to reach its destination to Malaysia. This postcard must have been held back by the COVID-19 pandemics.

According to Scott Stamp Catalogue, this surcharge stamp (K4.95) was done on a stamp with a denomination non-indicator C released on 19 March 2001. The stamp (non-indicator value C) was sold at 1500k at post office when it was released. I have no information on the date of surcharge.

Surcharge Stamps

A surcharge is one type of overprint. A surcharge stamp is a postage stamp overprinted to alter its face value. There are a few reasons for a postal authority to produce surcharge stamps. For whatever reasons, surcharge is always done on surplus stamp stocks.

Pos Malaysia (previously known as Jabatan Perkhidmitan Pos) has not done any surcharge stamp as far as I remember. I like surcharge stamps as these stamps carry extra postal information. Thai Post has been doing surcharge stamps from time to time. Below are just a few surcharge stamps from Thai Post.


the original stamps were issued on December 14, 1994 with a face value of 2+1B. The stamps have been surcharged to 5B

the original stamp was issued on December 5, 1997 with a face value of 6B. The stamp has been surcharged to 10B.

the original stamp was August 28, 1997 with a face value of 6B. The stamp has been surcharged to 15B.

the original stamp was issued on July 19, 1998 with a face value of 6B. The stamp has been surcharged to 15B