Attestation d'accueil, actually needed?

[George1]

This was the 2023 thread I had in mind - the ‘urgent letter’ in the thread title was an Attestation d’accueil…

DPD lack of delivery of an urgent letter from France

Anyone any ideas please. I have sent a Chronopost International speed delivery letter to England. It duly arrived and is now due to an error of DPD stuck in a depot. It has only 8 days to be delivered before it is returned back to me. So today is the 2nd day, they do not deliver on a Saturday so I suppose the weekend will make it 4 days and then we can only hope the delivery fairies get it delivered next Monday. Rang Chronopost France who have said there is nothing they can do - which is understandable - as it is not being picked up by DPD for delivery. So there is no come back (which is understandable also). However there is no way you can ring the DPD depot near the destination as they are not taking calls and you are not allowed to call in for the letter either. Also unless you have the GB tracking number you cannot send them an email either. DPD’s attitude is that it owes nothing to the receiver only the seller (expediteur). Has anyone else experienced this problem and ho…