POS Malaysia Bhd which in recent times is plagued with wide-ranging issues from ‘snobbish management’ to having come under fire for having posted its sixth consecutive year of losses is now being trolled for “can’t even provide something basic as a list of valid postcodes for Malaysia”.
ICT-savvy digital creator Post Thevesh (@Thevesh) who made such revelation on X recently has expressed disbelief at how the national courier & logistics provider is unable to furnish “the most basic and critical data”.
Since we’re all talking about @posmalaysia tonight, I would like to tell everyone:
Until today, Pos Malaysia does NOT publish something as basic as a list of valid postcodes for Malaysia.
How unbelievable is that! The most basic and critical data, not done.
— Thevesh (@Thevesh) April 18, 2025
According to a commenter, the closest it got to doing so was to publish the Buku Panduan Sistem Poskod Kebangsaan in 1996 and Buku Poskod Kebangsaan in the 2000s which no updates since then.
Beyond the physical version, Thevesh observed that “the openly available digital copy” of the national postcodes is unable till today.
“It’s critical geographic information. A simple list of around 3,000 codes. And we can’t get it from their site,” he lamented.
As pointed out by another commenter, the list to his knowledge “existed and maintained well though not published online”.
“In the past, there was the printed version … (the) address management team have to step up then!” he suggested.
This is when one commenter suggested that only “registered partners” have access to the postcodes via application programming interface (API).
Vetting through comments ti his post, Thevesh further illustrated a chaotic situation stemming from the unavailability of postcodes as shared by presumably a content developer who claimed to “getting questioned over legitimacy of postcodes generated from open source such as GitHub”.
As some netizens seized the moment to bash Pos Malaysia’s expatriate CEO Charles Brewer over the matter, one commenter wondered if the onus to produce a complete list of national postcodes now falls under the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
“Pos Malaysia now a private entity (major shareholder is DRB-HICOM Bhd with 53.5% stake). I don’t think they’re involved in government matters any longer,” he reckoned.
To those who need to verify the postcodes of certain locations, an ingenious commenter has mooted the idea of cross-checking their postcodes with “the addresses of online shopping platforms”.
“They’re doing a better job than @posmalaysia,” contended the netizen. – April 22, 2025
