I had this surprising experience with Poslaju. I am posting the Double Din player to Sarawak. After done packing in the box with enough padding. With Poslaju you ought to put extra padding, no one knows how they handle the package, why take the risk?
Ok. So I drive happily to Poslaju HQ at Rawang. I purposely going there… Just want to find out where is this Poslaju HQ at Rawang. So next time if I need to pickup the undelivered items, easier for me to go.
Once there I bring the box. The counter guy said, put it direct on the scale. I go and fill in the form. After few moments he got up and start weight the box. It weight 4.1 Kg only. Then he mention, this box cannot charge by weight, but by volumetric scale. I was like puzzle… I ask how much? (The right thing to ask when you don’t know a thing… lol)
He measure the box, do some calculation.. And then he said “RM85.70″. I was like WHATTT?? But I kept it cool. Haha. He explain more that the box is big, but really weight a little bit only. This big box will take up space, thus need to charge by volumetric.
I am shocked! Because I expect it should be around RM50 or so. Just check it online that it said for 5kg weight, only RM43 not inluding taxes. Back then I think… Duh! How much taxes going to cost… Not cost more than RM50. Surely I am. Little did I know…
Well… To sum it up. It’s better to go to the nearest Poslaju office (post office). It’s just the same. Better if office that is closer to any ATM so you can withdraw money should you run short of changes. You don’t know ok. Lucky I did bring RM100 that day.
So to Sarawak buyers, I will try to keep the box smaller to avoid the volumetric charge. I’ll find out later what is the maximum scale of weight before they charge by volumetric.
