Puzzling address

A rebus is an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. Very simple example: the letter H + [picture of an ear] = "hear" or "here". A more complex example is this "escort card" dating from about 1865.

A gentleman would present it to an unescorted lady at a social, for instance. It asks, "May I see you home my dear". Geddit?

Rebuses used to appear as puzzles in the funny pages of the newspapers back when Walt was a boy [before the earth's crust cooled. Ed.] Do newspapers have funny pages any more? Do newspapers even exist any more?

If you've been waiting a long time for the chance to solve a rebus, here's one. It has been reported (by Bill Bryson) that the United States Post Office -- not the latter-day USPS -- successfully delivered an envelope bearing only this address:

WOOD

JOHN

MASS

Can you decipher it? Answer sometime next week...