Let's face it. If you sell anything online today-and chances are, if you own a business, you do-you need as one of your top priorities, a reliable and fast delivery system for getting your products to your customers.

As a part of any online sale, it is not just the quality of the product that a customer values their experience by; but also, that of the convenience of the shipping.

This said, lets take a closer look at just why you need to know the most current and direct of FedEX department phone numbers for your business.

1) Reliability - There are five main things that can occur to prevent your product from arriving at the location to which it was shipped as expected: wrong address, damage, storms, mishandling, and duplicate contact information.

Though all of these are understandable reasons for a package to get lost-it is not the concern of your customer.

They rely on you, and this is why you must know how to clear up the issue as quickly as possible with a FedEx contact.

2) Courier Workforce-Unfortunately, as is true with any service job-there are both happy and unhappy couriers involved in FedEX.

This lends itself to less than excellence in some transport of packages. You must be ready to troubleshoot such an issue-and request another driver if possible.

3) Package Delay: In some cases, a package can be delayed from reaching its destination; and when this happens, you need to know how to find it, and find out why.

In most cases, it is one of three reasons: inclement weather, suspicious contents, or wrong address.

You must do whatever you can to ensure that on your end, all is ready for a smooth transport prior to shipping-to avoid most delays.

4) Damaged products: Though damage to a package is seldom an issue from a big business like FedEx, it can occur.

Most often, it could be a box that was not properly marked "fragile" or perhaps one that has travelled further than it needed to.

In any case, you have to be able to get restitution for this issue from FedEX by having the right contact.

5) Extra Money Charged: In some cases, a person shipping an item or items, may be charged much more than they thought they should.

This can be due to a number of reasons to include: weight, fragile contents, unexpected tariffs, and/or how fast it needs to get to the destination intended.

In all cases, a shipper should understand that all of these characteristics all integral in pricing of a package.

6) Lack of visibility online: While the online resource of tracking packages online is virtually seamless in its operation, sometimes you just need to find out why and more details from a customer service rep. This is where having the right phone contact is imperative.

7) Unforeseen Events: Though you can make sure that the package is ready for shipping, you can't always predict how the weather will turn or unforeseen events.

This said, you have to vigilant to tracking the package and also to know who to contact.

8) Travel Time: While packages seem to appear and disappear as if by time travel; they do travel quite long distances, physically.

People depend on this service, but as a business owner-you must expect such a process to occur. This said, if FedEx says it will be there in approx 3-5 days, you need to know who to call on the 6th day if no package has arrived.

9) Lost Packages: While most courier businesses have streamlined this service to be able to know where the packages are at any given time, there are still packages that get lost in the process.

When this happens, the business and the customer are both out what they expected; and so you need to contact the right department to get things made right.

10) Stolen Packages - while FedEX (and all of the major carriers) do have very stringent checks and balances in place sometimes packages do fall into the wrong hands. Perhaps the courier gets lost delivers it to the wrong address and can't retrieve it.

Perhaps an unscrupulous person just takes something that doesn't belong to them. Regardless of the reason it's something your customer will expect you to fix.

11) Business Reputation: Lastly, all of these possible issues that could arise are of course, not always in your control; but as noted previously, you need to provide your customers with what you promise them. This reliability leads to a solid reputation that they will come back to again and again.

Whatever the reason it's important that you stay vigilant and act quickly when problems with the courier do emerge. Your reputation with your customer will improve and you will find yourself in a better position in the long run.