PETALING JAYA, May 8 — Traffic at post offices nationwide has surged in recent days as voters rush to ensure their postal ballots reach their registered constituencies before the 5pm deadline on May 9.

Postal voters interviewed by The Star told the daily they were anxious and hope their ballot papers reach their destination on time.

Some reportedly said the postal voting was fairly convenient,

“I received mine last Thursday and posted it back immediately the next day, it’s a simple, easy process,” one unnamed postal voter was quoted saying.

Others said they may reconsider registering as a postal voter in future as they had received their ballot papers late.

One photographer named Roslan Abdullah proposed for more time to be given to returning the ballot papers.

The privatised Pos Malaysia is the main delivery service for postal votes nationwide.

Postal ballots will be kept in boxes under police guard that will be opened and counted together with regular ballots after polling ends at 5pm tomorrow.

A total of 278,590 Malaysians voted early on May 5. Of that figure, 18,913 were from the Royal Malaysia Police while 159,677 were Malaysian Armed Forces personnel and their spouses and the remainder 21,665 postal voters nationwide.