Explicit object property settings question

If I have an object mapping that has a property explicitly set as a string,
why ES traverse the string children as objects?

Here is a copy of my ES error, mapping and the message that is causing the
error:

Any ideas on how to resolve this? @fields.receive should be read in as a
string, not an object

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