Does this mean Flexipak is back now? Has anyone tried?

https://www.pos.com.my/news-info/pos-malays...ce-is-back.html

No, I highly doubt flexipak is an express service, thus international express = EMS only. Even now that is only available to few selected Asian countries.

Chanwsan you make me sad and dash my hopes!

As I remember, EMS never stopped within ASEAN, thats why I thought maybe they referring to Flexipak. Its true, Flexipak isnt express, in fact its the opposite of express really. That said, in the way you read the link would you guess Flexipak is next? I can go to the POS on Monday and ask but they usually never say anything until something has already happened.

Im so bitter about all this, especially when Singapore never stopped. They simply covered the seats in the regular planes and hauled parcels instead of people. Why couldnt Malaysia have done the same?

This post has been edited by ChasV: Mar 5 2021, 05:48 PM

No don't blame me, blame them management ;p

All outbound international services including EMS got suspended (again) since last August, with exception towards Singapore. I too was affected by this fantastic decision of theirs.

I guess international deliveries are low margin services so they happily use covid as excuse to temporarily axe these services and focus on domestic deliveries. Only now they finally cut the slack and partially resume EMS. Or they wanna use this opportunity to get people to use the expensive Asiaxpress.

I think their next step would be to fully resume EMS before doing anything about standard air parcel (I assume flexipak is processed equally with air parcel). Or close everything again because they can. Your guess is as good as mine.

Of course you can try to ask them, but I doubt they will tell you anything useful. Remember, we are dealing with a loss-making firm amidst the e-commerce boom.

Chanwsan, good points. I see it the same way.

Here is how we would know things are changing, which they are. I get adverts from airlines. One of them, Gulf Air, announced they are restarting service from the middle east to Singapore. If Singapore is opening to travel now, it means Malaysia has to follow soon. If Malaysia becomes even partially open to travel, those airlines will be taking Malaysia cargo again and that means parcels. One thing I do is stay glued to skyscanner.com to check flights to and from Malaysia. Before covid there were at least 30 flights, then to zero. During covid there is usually one airline offering one flight, once in a while. As that picks up, it means cargo will be open too.

However, because Im focused on US, its not open to travel yet and that means parcel delivery might expand within ASEAN before other places. I watch US news daily for this and its tied to vaccines. Not that I have any plan to take the vaccine, when there is a certain percentage, things will open. US has 320 million people, about 70 million vaccinated so far.

In any case, there were 100 ways to manage this and they chose the one that would ensure maximum pain to commerce.

This post has been edited by ChasV: Mar 11 2021, 09:39 PM

Maybe things are improving as we speak.

A few weeks ago, skyscanner.com showed ONE flight from Malaysia to US, suddenly yesterday there were 10 flights and i was shocked because I havent seen that all during covid. As flights are opening that means cargo and that may mean Flexipak. I will go to the pos and ask but if anyone has news please report for the group!

I might be the last person to know that Flexipak and related services have re-opened since 7 Oct. I was checking the site once a month all this time and finally gave up, so I didnt see it last month. There is a surcharge added at the post office at the time of shipping so if people want to begin using Flexipak its best to go to a pos office first and confirm the price as i will do tomorrow.