{"id":22011,"date":"2025-11-11T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/?p=22011"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:43:25","slug":"how-to-avoid-overpaying-for-the-delivery-of-light-but-bulky-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/how-to-avoid-overpaying-for-the-delivery-of-light-but-bulky-cargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume weight vs. actual weight: How to avoid overpaying for shipping light but bulky items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you manufacture or ship lightweight but bulky goods?<\/strong> Then you\u2019ve likely encountered an unpleasant surprise \u2014 the delivery cost is significantly higher than expected, even though the actual weight of the shipment is minimal. The reason is simple: logistics operators and airlines calculate shipping costs based on whichever is greater \u2014 the actual weight or the volumetric weight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this article, we clearly explain what volumetric weight is<\/strong>, how to calculate it correctly, and most importantly \u2014 we provide practical tips that will help your business significantly save on shipping by avoiding overpaying for air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you manufacture or ship lightweight but bulky goods? Then you\u2019ve likely encountered an unpleasant surprise \u2014 the delivery cost is significantly higher than expected, even though the actual weight of the shipment is minimal. The reason is simple: logistics operators and airlines calculate shipping costs based on whichever is greater \u2014 the actual weight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-single_post_new.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-oformlennia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22011"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22358,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22011\/revisions\/22358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}