Letter Carriers · Stage 3

Podcaster's Wisdom for the Real World

Real voices from the route — hand-picked podcast episodes and excerpts about the job as it really is. Press play to listen, or read along with the transcript.

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Training tells you how the job is supposed to go. The people behind these microphones tell you how it actually goes — casing tricks, street smarts, and hard-won lessons from carriers who've lived it. Some entries are short excerpts, others are full episodes. Every one has a 📄 Transcript button next to it if you'd rather read than listen.

CCA Corner — A CCA Mindset

Edited Episode

Hosts Badmouth, Mallory, and Cole sit down with Alan Gegax of Classes of Mail — how CCAs really get treated, the ELM rules management ignores, opts and hold-downs, and building the union from the bottom up. Edited for the Hub: a clown-horn honk 📯 marks each place the episode skips ahead, and strong language is bleeped.

📄 Transcript

Courtesy of the CCA Corner — featuring Alan Gegax

From A to Arbitration — Harassment Re: Time (Demonstrated Performance & 3999's)

Excerpt

Episode 99 · Guest Jason "J.B." Leath on why a one-day 3999 ride-along can't set your street-time standard — and what to grieve, step by step, when management calls it your "demonstrated performance."

📄 Transcript

Courtesy of Corey Walton, From A to Arbitration — featuring Jason "J.B." Leath

The Postal Stand-Up — Casing Technique

Excerpt

Episode 049 · Alan and Michael talk casing — the same bonus content linked from the Case & Pull Down step.

📄 Transcript

Courtesy of Alan Gegax

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