Does anyone remember in old-timey puzzle books that you might have read as a kid, the example puzzles (maybe fictional) of how the British postal service would

Does anyone remember in old-timey puzzle books that you might have read as a kid, the example puzzles (maybe fictional) of how the British postal service would decode people's addresses expressed in rebus form? Like: HILL ---- MIKE ---- WOOD They would say the post office cleverly got it delivered to Mike Underhill, Overwood UK. I guess that was for a more leisurely, less efficient time.