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If you ship with TCS and your invoice never quite matches what you expected, the gap is rarely a single error. It is usually the four inputs behind every line resolving differently from how you assumed.
TCS contracts are typically built around sectors. The origin and destination together resolve to a band — broadly, movement within a city, movement inside the same province, and movement between provinces — with certain major cities sometimes handled as their own cases in the card.
The practical consequence is that the sector is a property of the pair, not of the destination alone. Two consignments arriving in the same city can sit in different bands depending on where they were picked up. If your pickup location changed during the month, or if some consignments were collected from a different warehouse, expect the sector mix to move with it.
Two numbers compete, and the higher one wins.
The actual weight is what the consignment registers on TCS equipment at the hub — not what was written on your booking slip. The volumetric weight is derived from the parcel's dimensions divided by the divisor stated in your contract. Light, bulky parcels are billed on their size. Our volumetric weight calculator does this step for you.
Whichever is higher is then placed in a slab. Freight moves in bands, not per kilogram, and rounding runs upward only.
A TCS billing file is per consignment. The fields that matter for reconciliation are the consignment number, the destination, the billed weight, and the charge components. Fuel adjustments and GST are commonly presented as separate elements rather than folded into the base rate — check which convention your card uses before comparing anything, because that single question causes more false disputes than any other.
Match invoice lines to orders on the consignment number, never on order value. Recompute the expected charge from your own slab table. Sort differences into weight disputes and sector disputes — they are separate arguments with separate evidence. Then file inside the claim window in your contract, which runs from the invoice date.
The full method is in our guide to reconciling courier shipping charges in Pakistan.
Whichever is higher, with the volumetric figure calculated from your parcel's dimensions using the divisor written into your contract.
Most often because they fell into different weight slabs, or because they were collected from different origins and therefore resolved to different sectors.
From your TCS account manager. Ask specifically for the signed slab table including the volumetric divisor and the treatment of fuel and GST — a quoted headline rate is not enough to reconcile against.
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