FranticFish - 9:42 pm on Jul 25, 2011 (gmt 0)

get a post office box

Not in the UK, at least not in my experience. I registered someone with Google Places recently who has had a PO Box on their site as long as they've traded because they work from home. The account was suspended (automatically?) and on logging into the dashboard there was a message saying the PO Box was the reason. We filed a reconsideration request but gave up after 6 weeks and killed the account and re-registered using his consulting rooms as an address. Another six weeks later we got a message from Google saying they'd decided to approve the use of the PO Box address :)