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I have a question about MRs. I have several images of Native American Children that I have submitted. The reservation does not deliver mail door to door so your main addresses is a PO Box. On the Model release I put the street address, followed by the PO Box and then the city, state, zip etc.

These releases have now been rejected for some images and accepted for others. What is the procedure for MR's where the person can not actually get mail at the physical address? Should I just resubmit the images as is or should I delete the approved images, basically my entire portfolio that were approved using the same release?

I tried asking this on the DT forums but the thread was deleted and I was told to ask support. I did send the same note to support but I'm still waiting for an answer. Has anyone here run into this issue before?

Just a guess, but are they being rejected for the address or something else. There's nothing wrong with an address that lists a street address and a po box, businesses use this all the time. Does the rejection say "model release" or does it specify why the model release doesn't pass? Just list the address if that's their real address. Do you think someone is going to write to them and check? 

You wrote children, in which case you need the parents to sign the model release.

Stormchaser, you put down your phone number and if someone calls, you say "he's out right now can I take a message." Then get a number so he can call back, since you are the contact. Or maybe just write down a disconnected number? People move and disconnect phones all the time.

They want a completed form, so give them what they want. 

The rejection specifically states that PO Boxes are not allowed and then gives a long explanation about how the MR is a contract and must be complete.

The confusing part is that some images, using the same release have been approved, but others are rejected for the MR. It almost is like I got the new guy for some of the reviews and he didn't notice that both addresses were listed or saw the PO Box and didn't read the rest to see that it was included with a building number.

I can get the MR's resigned if I have to but that means that there is no way to contact these models. I might as well write 1600 Pennsylvania Ave as their address because all mail will be refused if the PO Box is not listed. The PO here does not accept anything that does not say "PO Box XXXX".

What's making me crazy is that they accepted several images using the same address. A 4 line with physical and PO Box listed. But now that I uploaded the bulk of my portfolio all of my people images have been refused, bringing my upload limit down to 5 images a day. On top of that it means that 90% of my portfolio has been rejected which makes it pointless for me to stay with DT as an agency.

I had 4 that were "out of focus" and I'm not arguing over those. Out of 150 uploads I had roughly 100 rejected for "PO Box on MR". I have another 90 to go but I'm not going up finish them until I find out if it's worth it since they are also mostly people images.

Besides all this, DT is dead. Very confusing site, and I notice more and more bigger portfolios I have been tracking are closing.

I just leave my stuff there because the $5 or so a month might add up to something one day.

Dead site. For me anyway.

No RGebbie. None. Heaps of promises in their advertising but few can deliver.

I gave up on waiting for support to email me back and I called them. I pointed out that both the physical and mailing address are on the release, which is the legal way to list the address on contracts. She told me to resubmit the images and make a note to the reviewer that the address is fine.

I also asked about getting my 20% acceptance rate changed so that I could upload more than 5 images a day since the issue was due to their mistake. She took my user name but mentioned that it was doubtful that anything could be done. What I didn't realize was how cumbersome the resubmit process is.

I'm beginning to think it will be easier to just forget using the resubmit and I'll upload the images fresh making a note about the releases.