{"podcast":{"title":"Classes of Mail","slug":"classes-of-mail-6306410","podcast_index_feed_id":6306410,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/classesofmail/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/classesofmail","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/classesofmail/20260404_010430_5efa4cf3dbe211ee150f4050bde3b4e6.png","author":"Alan Gegax","episode_count":304,"summary":"This podcast is intended to empower city letter carriers. Through education, we'll make ourselves better carriers who are immune to discipline and mistreatment by management, and are forces for positive change and reform within our own union. I do not speak for the USPS or NALC (or anybody else, for that matter!), this is not an official USPS or NALC podcast, and all opinions and advice are my own or my guests'. Submit feedback, questions, or topic suggestions to classesofmail@gmail.com .","last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T16:21:23.431680+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classes-of-mail-6306410"},"episode":{"title":"JCAM Article 9","slug":"jcam-article-9","published_at":"2026-06-23T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classes-of-mail-6306410/jcam-article-9","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classes-of-mail-6306410","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/classesofmail/2923704","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/203340/2923704/classesofmail/2026_06_17_21_10_37_5d2bce7c-3042-46e4-8fa7-26258a9ceb81.mp3","summary":"Today we continue our reading of the JCAM with Article 9. This article covers our salaries and our COLAs. We'll go over what a \"diet COLA\" is, and how we're all actually getting screwed by our COLA system. We also go into the wage provisions for carrier technicians.","meta_description":"Today we continue our reading of the JCAM with Article 9. This article covers our salaries and our COLAs. We'll go over what a \"diet COLA\" is, and how we'…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2216,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/classes-of-mail-6306410/episodes/jcam-article-9/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classes-of-mail-6306410/jcam-article-9.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}