Ya, and in 1958, gasoline cost 30 cents a gal. Now it is $3.00. Check my math:
gas 30 cents to 3.00 = 10 time price imcrease.
first class mail 4 cents to 40 cents = 10 times price increase.
looks right, not a bad return from 58. I think the house I was born in around that time was purchased for something like 12 or 15,000 and is easily worth 150,000 now. same 10x figure....scary, I wonder if Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan noticed these numbers.