A facing slip recovered from the body of Oscar S. Woody, a postal clerk aboard the R.M.S. TITANIC who died in the disaster. The R.M.S. stands for Royal Mail Ship, and this ship was charged with delivering transatlantic mail. There were seven postal clerks aboard, and there were 3,364 mail bags, each containing 2,000 or more pieces of mail. American postal clerk Oscar Woody was celebrating his 41st birthday when the TITANIC hit the iceberg. He and the other postal clerks worked frantically to move bags of mail to upper decks, wading in waist-deep water the last time they were seen alive. These facing slips were attached to bundles of mail to indicate their destination, and each was stamped with the name of the postal clerk who had sorted them. It appears that, as Woody realized the ship was sinking, he collected as many of his facing slips as he could, in hopes of accounting for the mail that was lost. All of the postal clerks died. Woody's body was found by the ship sent out to recover remains, the MACKAY-BENNETT. He was buried at sea and his personal effects, including the facing slips, were bagged up and given to his widow. This slip is also stamped with the name of the ship and a "Transatlantic Post Office" postmark dated April 10, 1912, the date of departure from Southampton. It is labeled "Sealed Distributions Customs/Second Div. N.Y.P.O." and a 7 is handwritten on it.