How much does a mini bottle of booze weigh?

[HairOfTheDog]

I like ordering weird booze online so I bought different flavors of moonshine in mini bottles.


I got three different flavors (six in each), a free mystery mini and a mason jar of peaches in moonshine.  So that's 19 mini bottles and a jar of peaches.

How the fuck does the package end up being 31 pounds?  I even contacted the store and they confirmed that's the correct shipping weight.

Did you try any of them yet?  They look pretty good.

I used to have office supplies delivered sometimes and wondered why the shipping weight was so much higher than the actual weight of the contents.  

The shipping weight is often different than the actual weight because the courier uses a billable rate formula based on package dimensions.   

The dimensional weight (cubic size x length/height/width, IIRC) more accurately reflects the cost to the courier, from what I was told.