USA started cooking the books on inflation when they took the cost of housing out and replaced it with "rental cost of housing". That one change (among several used to lower the inflation number after Social Security was indexed) helped the mtg meltdown to happen. Everyone thought rising real...
Last time I checked the airlines and UPS charged about the same. But now many airlines want $100 per 50 pounds. Check UPS and see if they have held their rates the same.