Actual weight and volumetric weight in shipments | Payments and Shipping

milotemesvar · 2024-11-14T09:01:10.776000Z

Actual weight and volumetric weight You often read on the eBay forum about extra money requests made by Packlink following unclear checks of the dimensions and weight of the parcels shipped.And rightly so, many people feel cheated, because they are sure they measured and weighed the parcels exactly. Thinking about starting to sell used things again next year, I wanted to look into it and found that there is this concept I didn't know about, the “Volumetric Weight”. A parcel can have certain dimensions and a certain weight, both calculated precisely by the sender, but then you have to consider the volumetric weight to avoid running into these unpleasant requests. For example, yesterday I shipped a parcel with UPS (it has nothing to do with eBay, but UPS is one of the shippers that appears in the Shipping Manager). The dimensions were 28x28x43 but I wrote 30x30x45 (so calculated with a margin), and the actual weight 6.50 kg, but to be even safer, on the UPS website I entered 7.50.However, I fear that wasn't enough, because I later found out that this is the way to calculate the “volumetric weight” indicated on the UPS website: “Multiply the parcel length (the longest side) by the width and height. The result obtained is the cubic volume in centimeters.Divide the cubic volume in centimeters by the divisor to calculate the volumetric weight in kilograms. Round any fractions up to the next whole kilogram.The divisor is 5,000” https://www.ups.com/it/it/support/shipping-support/shipping-dimensions-weight.page So... 30 x 30 x 45 = 40500 / 5000 = 8.1 So should I have set that figure to be on the safe side?I hope I don't run into checks, and that in this case they do the calculations not based on the generous measurements I entered but on the parcel's actual ones, namely 28x28x43 = 33712/5000 = 6.7

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