How To Identify The Owner Of a Post Office Box
Author: Ed Opperman

Sometimes as a PI you'll be asked to locate and or identify
the physical address for the owner of a PO BOX or Postal
Mail Box (PMB). This is often called a post office Box
Break or a reverse PO box.

This can often be accomplished with a database search if
you have access to a database that utilizes credit headers.
When people have a PO Box they will often use that address
for their bills or car payments, utility bills etc and the
PO Box will appear on their credit headers as an alternate
address.

If it's not there you may be able to obtain the information
by contacting the United States Postal Service using a form
available on the USPS web site. This form requires you to
disclose the reason you need the information. The USPS will
only reveal the information if you are attempting to serve
legal service in proper person, like a subpoena . They even
require a case number in the court the case will be tried.

Sometimes these methods will still fail. It could be that
the owner of the box has relocated since they opened the
box and no longer live at the address they provided the
USPS. It is even possible that the owner of the Post
Office Box used false identification when they opened the
account for the box.

You can try to pretext the PMB owner by mailing them
professional looking material, free offers, maybe even a
love letter, anything to trick the owner into revealing
their identity. These mailings should always include a trap
line phone number with call capture. If the mail box owner
calls you'll get their information and can trace them that
way.

This may sound like a lot of work for a simple PO BOX
Break. Setting up trap lines , obtaining credit headers,
printing up pretext post cards. Many investigators like to
out source this type of work and purchase the information
from an investigator that's already set up to routinely
obtain this kind of information.

There is an old saying that there's no reason to reinvent
the wheel. This is especially true when it come to private
investigators that specialize in obtaining information and
selling it to other investigators that are involved in a
much larger more complicated investigation.

This would not only apply to a Post Office box break but
could be a simple locate or phone break.


About the Author:

For assistance in performing a PO Box break contact Ed
Opperman Pres of Operman Investigations Inc through his web
site http://www.emailrevealer.com/