# BRD-101 — Express PIN delivery needs a real street address

> A PO box, mailbox service or general-delivery address cannot be used when express PIN delivery is requested for political vetting.

- **Rule ID:** BRD-101
- **Layer:** Brand (`BRAND`)
- **Checks:** `brand.street`
- **Severity:** HIGH — Rejected by at least one carrier or provider, and a common cause of failure at the rest.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** Deterministic (settled in code from the submitted values)
- **Fix type:** Fix the field — a better value in the form clears it
- **Required by:** TCR
- **Applies:** Applies when the use case is POLITICAL.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-101/

## Why this rule exists

Political vetting confirms identity by couriering a PIN to the registered address, and couriers do not deliver to a PO box or a mailbox service — so the vet is bought, the PIN is dispatched, and it comes back undelivered. The fee is spent either way, and the campaign schedule is the thing that actually suffers, because political programmes are usually dated.

## How to fix it

Give a street address where a courier can hand the envelope to a person during business hours — the campaign office, not the treasurer's mailbox. Done when the address has a house number and a street and no box number.

## Example of a compliant value

```text
street: 1240 Mission St, Suite 400 — not "PMB 118, 1240 Mission St" and not a UPS Store box
```

## Common mistakes

- A mailbox-service address looks like a street address by design: "1240 Mission St #118" is a street address, and "PMB 118" at the same building is not.