That's the way of things Cecil, unfortunately. If you ever fly a non-US airline you would be amazed at the price and how much better the customer service is but those airlines are not allowed to fly domestically in the US. My advice, go USPS and spend a couple bucks on insurance. If the shipment goes bad, you're covered.
Those airlines are heavily subsidized by their countries aren't they? But we can't have that as it's communism. LOL