I shipped a package at FedEx that weighed 5 lbs and I received an invoice for a 15 lb package. Is there any way to fight this, or do I take the L

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Fight it out of principle

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Hands down. If it’s not about the money for you, then it should be about principle

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Depends on difference in price and how much you value your time/sanity vs contesting

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Drop FedEx as your shipper like you did for UPS and build your own shipping network.

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This is revenge for all the times you’ve sent me completely empty enormous boxes with a tiny tiny item

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Hahaha I just now realized OP is an Amazon employee

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It might be dimensional weight if your package is large but low weight (i.e., a weight-volume cost equivalence)

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Shoot I think this is it

Almost certainly dimensional weight: https://www.fedex.com/en-us/shipping/packaging/what-is-dimensional-weight.html

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Thanks for this. Irritating since I defined my dimensions/weight up front and wasn’t informed about this until much later, but makes sense

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You should have a receipt from the initial weighing. Otherwise you probably can't contest it.

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