LTL (less-than-truckload) shares truck space and pays per carton/kg — economical to ~500 kg. FTL books the whole truck — cheapest per kg above that.
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Pakka Parcel Editorial
October 22, 2026 · 4 min read
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LTL vs FTL: LTL (less-than-truckload) shares truck space and pays per carton/kg — economical to ~500 kg.
Why you care: Graduating from parcels to cartons is a milestone — past ~10 cartons a shipment, LTL freight beats stacking courier labels.
In practice: 25 cartons Mumbai→Delhi: LTL at ~₹8/kg beats 25 separate parcels by 40%+; 3 cartons → courier still wins.
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LTL vs FTL — LTL (less-than-truckload) shares truck space and pays per carton/kg — economical to ~500 kg. FTL books the whole truck — cheapest per kg above that.
Why it matters to your store
Graduating from parcels to cartons is a milestone — past ~10 cartons a shipment, LTL freight beats stacking courier labels. Below that, multi-piece courier bookings win.
This is the vocabulary every courier invoice, NDR report and rate card is written in — learn it once, save money forever.
25 cartons Mumbai→Delhi: LTL at ~₹8/kg beats 25 separate parcels by 40%+; 3 cartons → courier still wins.
The bottom line
Shipping jargon is really just the billing manual in disguise — every term on this list maps to a line
on an invoice or a lever on your margins. Pakka Parcel is built so you rarely have to think about it:
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