Parcel calculators
Find the weight a parcel is actually billed on, and the point at which its size starts costing more than its contents.
What drives a parcel invoice
- Cubic size. Length times width times height, with each dimension rounded up to the next whole inch before anything else happens.
- The divisor. 139 for FedEx and UPS daily rates, 166 at UPS retail. A bigger divisor means a smaller billable weight, and it is negotiable on volume.
- Billable weight. The greater of the actual weight and the dimensional weight, rounded up to the next pound.
Everything else — zone, fuel, residential, additional handling, oversize — is applied on top of that billable weight, which is why shaving an inch off a carton is worth more than it looks.