Stump The Post Office - Can You Guess?

EVERYONE HOLD! HI-RES SCAN AND POWER MAGNIFIER SHOWING SOME DIFFERENT LETTERS UNDER THE MARKER - UPDATES FOLLOW

OK I like the stamp and I do like the picture cause it's an old postcard, but WOW. It used to be a game to try and stump the post office. I can tell you this card's postmark from Australia is valid and the card actually was sent to the U.S. and delivered by normal mail. Can you decipher the address where it was supposed to go. Who is up for a game? (I don't even have all the answer yet, so we are in this together). The writing behind is the same as what you see, someone copied the works with a marker. So HERE WE GO !

I'm stumped! I can read every word but cannot decipher its address.

Clue #1 "I'll bake you" is baked alaska so you have Alaska, USA

Alaska! That would be verified by "north". I'm gonna have to sleep on this one and see if I can dream up the rest of the address.

Quite baffling!

I like the picture of Elizabeth Street, though. Just about the only part still standing is the old GPO building, below the clock tower. And even it has been turned into an upmarket shopping centre.

Incidentally, the lyrebird shown on the 1/- stamp is a brilliant mimic; some say the best in the bird world. And it will mimic any sound it hears. I've heard recordings of it doing perfect imitations of car doors slamming, and of the motor drive and click of cameras. (A favourite Sunday drive, when I was a lad, was up to the Dandenong mountains behind Melbourne, to observe and photograph the lyrebirds. Maybe the imitations are their subtle revenge.)

Looks like childs scribble,

"H7 army butter you worth" probably
refers to an Australian army base in malaysia
Butterworth.

I reckon that is a mutilation,
obviously the card has gone through the mail
and reached its destination.
I don't think it would have got there
with that rubbish on it.
Just my opinion.
Probably someone doodling on the kitchen table,
that's where a lot of postcards lay after receival.
Before they get stuck on the fridge if from someone dear
or placed in a stack of papers, receipts, bill, doctor's appointments
bank statements and other detrius.

BTW I love the postcatd image, Tony Mac will be more au fait
with the location, but I can see an old open
milk truck bottom left, behind a Ford Pilot,
and some other fabulous vehicles, one with a spare wheel on each front mudguard.

But the problem, as I see it, is that the "address" is in the same handwriting and ink as the message. If someone receiving the card then doodled, what are the chances that the handwriting and ink would match the message. The message is quite straight forward.

There do appear to be some markings under the gibberish.

It looks like original biro writing has been written over in felt-tip pen, or something like that.
The message and the address could have both been written over. Maybe someone doodled a nonsense message over the original.

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It's in Alaska, USA.

An older person with poor eyesight (or someone did it for them) might have used a marker to make the writing more readable, or a postie.

Or having printing over on top of writing is a clue to how to break the cipher. Just like the syntax of the message and the signature. Look at how the periods are placed in the message.

The first part of the address is 'H: 7 -', does that mean H colon seven dash or H dot dot seven stroke or something? Does armybutter mean 'are my brother'? Am I reaching too far here?

There is a town in Alaska called Hogatza = Pork better go or else?

I remember reading something about stumping the post office with riddles before.

Let's clear up the writing. Someone has written over the original with marker, (I have several cards doodled by the same author and I am assuming a child) but from what I can tell, they copied it somewhat correctly, but it sure is a stumper for me too. I will see if I can get a close up scan to check behind. jeff

ANOTHER CLUE - Same kid, same copying business, but at the bottom is that name again. Maybe we can put something together now?