Express PIN delivery needs a real street address
The requirementstatement
A PO box, mailbox service or general-delivery address cannot be used when express PIN delivery is requested for political vetting.
- Severityseverity
- HighHIGHRejected by at least one carrier or provider, and a common cause of failure at the rest.
- When it bitesphase
- Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
- What is checkedobject
- brand.street
- Where it liveslayer
- BrandBRAND
- How Ekas settles itdetectability
- DeterministicDETERMINISTIC
- Settled in code from the values you submitted. No model involved, no judgement call, same answer every time.
- What the fix involvesfailureClass
- Fix the fieldRETRY_FIELD
- A better value in the form fixes it. Ekas can rewrite it and re-check.
- Who requires itauthorities
- TCR
- When it appliesapplicabilityText
- Applies when the use case is POLITICAL.
Why this rule existsrationale
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 itremediation
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.
A compliant exampleexample
street: 1240 Mission St, Suite 400 — not "PMB 118, 1240 Mission St" and not a UPS Store box
Common mistakespitfalls
- 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.
Rules you will hit next
3 other rules read brand.street. Fixing one field to satisfy a single rule is how a resubmission trades one rejection for another, so read these before you change anything.
BRD-096Brand address must be a physical address, not a PO boxBlockingBLOCKINGBRD-099The address is checked against spam and scam complaint dataBlockingBLOCKINGBRD-098Register the company address, not the branch you work fromHighHIGHBRD-006Submit every name line above the address on a multi-line IRS recordHighHIGHBRD-007TCR takes only the first line of the IRS-registered nameHighHIGHBRD-010Take the legal name from the CP-575 or 147C, never a W-2 or W-9HighHIGH
BRD-101 is one of 196 brand rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.