Net Detective
Net Detective is the standard against which all other detective software should be measured.
Net Detective has developed an exclusive database of US residents that you can search. It combines phone records, voting records, PO Box records, and many other databases.
Yes, this costs a lot of money. That's why the free search sites cannot provide this information.
Overview of Actual Search Results
Here are some results from a search for Mike Wendland, a contributor to the Detroit Free Press. You can see that only Net Detective captures PO Box addresses.
| Search Tool | People Found | Listed Household Residents | Listed Phone Number | Finds PO Box Holders |
| Net Detective | 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Switchboard.com | 1 | No | Yes | No |
| AnyWho.com | 1 | No | Yes | No |
| InfoSpace.com | 1 | No | Yes | No |
| WhitePages.com | 1 | No | Yes | No |
| WhoWhere.com | 2 | No | Yes | No |
| people.yahoo.com | 2 | No | Yes | No |
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