iMessage cannot send, receive attachements

[ElroyCarbon]

Alright, here's what I'm experiencing.  Attached images (.PNG) are either passing at an extremely slow speed or simply never even arrive to their destination.  All we see are the 3 dots that typically indicate typing from the sender on the iMessage recipients pane.  

Here's what they see:

[ElroyCarbon]

Since I can't attach my screenshots I'll try and describe what I've done thus far.

I created an Apple address

Subnet/ IP Range = 17.0.0.0/255.0.0.0

Interface = Any

I then created services:

Apple 16384-16387 (UDP)

Apple 16393-16402 (UDP)

Apple 2195 (TCP)

Apple 2196 (TCP)

Apple 3478-3497 (UDP)

Apple 443 (TCP)

Apple 5223 (TCP)

I identified destination ports accordingly AND source ports which I set to Low = 0 and High = 65535

Attached are my policy details: