Look at the date for post number 7 arnl.....

I was just keeping you on your toes Deja 😛

Yeah sure ! B-)

Good Afternoon 

I'm sorry to hear you have experienced issues with the cost of posting an item by Click and Send.

The calculator tool is just estimation as we cannot guarantee pricing over the internet as we can't physically weigh the package.

The reason that we take into consideration the cubic weight as well as the dead weight, is that some parcels may be incredibly light, though take up a lot of room in our parcel cages and trucks. For example, if you are sending 1Kg of packing peanuts, the box would take up a lot more room to ship than say a kilo of lead ingots.

Considering both weights when calculating postage allows us to charge both parcels at a fairer rate that takes into account the costs to us of transporting each parcel than using only one or the other would.

I hope this makes sense and helps clear matters up for you.

Deb

Hi Deb,

this is an old thread but while you are here, can I ask you a question?

If the space in the truck is the issue, why is it that AP charges the higher of the two amounts every time ie if the item is small but heavy then the cubing rate is not used but dead weight is, but if the item is light and bulky then the cubing rate applies.

Surely it is one or the other? The size or the weight.

AP wouldn't really want to have a bit each way would they?

Doesn't really seem fair does it?

Australia Post charges whatever way they can get the most money for....of course they want to have a bit each way.

Devil's advocate here.

2 tonne of lead ingots would not fill a van up, but anything else would overload it. It seems to me to be a reasonable tradeoff. The vans have a fixed load carrying capacity but they also have a fixed cargo volume. So the better (AP wise) amount would tend towards the average.

2 tonnes of lead ingots would fit in our van but we could not deliver it....we would probably write the van off.:^O

We could not deliver 2 tonnes of feathers either as the volume would not fit in.:^O

My point exactly.

Feathers or lead?

Do you know Conrad?

Try deliveranything.com.au 

they are a new delivery service