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You received an email stating that we did not accept your image because it did not meet our Content Restrictions. The most likely reasons that your image was not accepted include the following:
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Also, one of the following less common reasons your image was not accepted may have applied:
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- Your image appeared to us to be a vintage image or from an older era, which we do not currently accept (click here for more information).
- We may have had a concern over the image quality of your submission (click here for more information).
- Your image may have depicted a postage stamp, postage indicia, or US Postal Service trademark.
Examples of images that we accept include babies, individuals, couples, families, pets, landscapes, artistic items, and other similar types of images. Any person in a picture should be wearing reasonable clothing for the situation. We are conservative in our acceptance of images.
Please note that owing to privacy concerns, our customer support representatives do not have access to the image(s) that you submitted. As such, they cannot provide details on why your submission did not meet our content guidelines.
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The Stamps.com Team
so, not only have they rejected my photo (which contains none of the things for which photos are usually rejected, but does contain things for which photos usually are accepted), but their "censors" are private, cannot be questioned, and if i call to complain, their "help desk" deliberately knows nothing about it and couldn’t give me an answer, even if they wanted to.
if i read the above correctly, the only thing for which i can guess they might have rejected it would be that it is "objectionable in some way (e.g. it was obscene, offensive, pornographic, too sexually suggestive, violent, threatening, harmful, abusive, defamatory, libelous, etc.)", but, as it is a photo of me, i certainly wouldn’t think it is abusive, defamatory or libelous. but even if it were that, apparently there is no way for me to tell their "censors", which means that i guess i don’t get to be on a stamp… 8/
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