Mark Maclennan wrote:
> You are assuming that post office boxes only exist at
> U.S.
> goverment Post Offices - however, that is not necessary the
> case. There are many franchisors of retail postal and business
> services that also offer post office boxes (such as Mailboxes Etc.).
> The usual solution
> is to use the Zip Code centroid or to skip it.
>
AFIK as I can tell, all private mailboxes have normal street addresses.
Are you aware of a private post office box operator that has a franchise
from the USPS to do otherwise? I'm interested an example of such.
> I would also
> question the assumption that someone using a post office box
> lives near it - that may be true most of the time but not
> necessarily always.
If its true most of the time, it works for our purposes. Besides, the
assumption that people live the address they gave on the form is also
suspect: we'll have grandma's address, fake addresses,
places-I-used-to-live, and but-I-really-stay-at-my-boyfriend's-house also.
And -- the branch or satellite USPS PO Box location. But worse of all,
the proxy address (For example: a company or institute with one mail
stop, but multiple campuses miles apart).
So: back to the original question. Anyone know how to obtain a reliable
database of USA USPS locations?
-Bryce
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