Vehicle owners get their rebates

PETALING JAYA: Motorists lined up as early as 7am to get their fuel rebates at post offices throughout the country.

Apart from minor hiccups when there were too many customers at once claiming their cash rebates, Pos Malaysia has won praises for an efficient service.

Noor Ashikin, 26, flaunts the RM625 she collected at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail post office yesterday.

A check by The Star at post offices here revealed that most customers were happy with the payment system that went well on its first day.

Many came early and by noon, the queues had shortened.

Retiree Wong On, 72, said he waited just 30 minutes to get his rebate at the post office in Section 17.

In Johor Baru, hundreds of people turned up at post offices.

Retiree Lee Beng Ho, 68, said he was glad that he only waited for several minutes to get his rebate .

Azlini Zakariah, 46, was relieved after collecting the RM625 as she was facing difficulty paying her son’s university fee.

“Now, I can afford to pay the semester fee of RM608,” she said.

In Muar, the crowd started to fill the post office compound as early as 7am for the application forms and by noon more than 700 applications have been processed.

Bakri MP Er Teck Hwa, who was at the post office to monitor the crowd, said he received about 50 complaints from the people and came to check the crowd.

He said the Government could just post the forms to vehicle owners.

“The forms should also be simplified as many do not know how to fill them,” he said.

In Malacca, the queues built up early and proceeded smoothly except for some cases of queue jumping and other minor grouses.

At the main Pos Malaysia Berhad in Bukit Baru, Siti Nur Jayhan Begam, 24, from Taman Desa Molek was disappointed when she was told, after waiting for two hours, that she could not get her cash rebate, as her name was not found in the Road Transport Department (JPJ) system database.

She was told to take up the matter with the JPJ.