Tips to avoid overweight charge

Overweight charge? In this article, we share with you some tips to avoid overweight charge when shipping your products.

For the seller that is constantly sending his packages, this term is not unknown, this is a very common situation when you make shipments. 

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How overweight charges are generated?

The overweight charge occurs when your package has a different weight than the one that is indicated in your shipping labels previously printed. 

As a tip, we advise you to verify that the information on your shipping label is correct and has the same weight and real volume of your package to avoid this extra charge. 

Avoid overweight.

We recommend you to follow the next measures to avoid these charges in your packages:

1. When you quote, you should know the exact measure and size of your product.
2. In our software, you can write down the exact sizes of your packages. If your package has a size of 30.67 cm, you can write down 31 cm. This is to make sure that you’re avoiding the overweight charge.
3. It applies the same way for the weight of your product. 
4. Make sure the volume and weight of your packages match with the information printed on your shipping labels. 

Tips to send your packages successfully. 

Envia Shipping shares with you the following information to send your packages successfully:

1. Use the right packaging.
2. Use new boxes with standard sizes, not the reuse ones. 
3. Determine the high weight, it could be the volumetric weight or mass. 

How does Envia Shipping help you to solve this problem?

In case of having an overweight charge, Envia Shipping helps you to solve this situation in the following way. 

Report your problem with an assessor, it could be trough social media or through our platform, and we’ll guide you shortly to solve this problem. 

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