How do I get the location of a P.O. Box?

I am using Azure Maps and when I give it a P.O. Box, it tells me it cannot provide a longitude & latitude for it. I need this for find stuff within a rough distance and so I'd prefer the lat/long of the actual post office, but anything in the area would work.

How can I accomplish this?

> I need this to find stuff within a rough distance and so I'd prefer the lat/long of the actual post office

You can use the below python code to get the latitude and longitude of the post office in the USA.

Code:

from azure.maps.search import MapsSearchClient
from azure.core.credentials import AzureKeyCredential

# Set the address
address = "United States Postal Service"
subscription_key = "Your azure map subscription-key "
search_api =MapsSearchClient(credential=AzureKeyCredential(subscription_key))
response = search_api.search_address(query=address)
if len(response.results) > 0:
    print(f"Coordinate: {response.results[0].position.lat},{response.results[0].position.lon}")

Output:

Coordinate: 43.62057,-70.32654

Map:

Reference:

How to create Azure Maps applications using the Python REST SDK (preview) - Azure Maps | Microsoft Learn

US PO Boxes are not generally geocodable. At best, if you have the address the PO Box is located at, you can put that address in. This is not an Azure Maps specific limitation but a general limitation. There are a lot of funky things that go on with PO Boxes (they can be moved to other addresses).