[samatman]

Anyone can buy a router and start an intranet.

Building a shipment company which can reach everyone in a country is a substantial capital investment, which I suspect is higher than that for a nationwide private network, though which is higher is irrelevant to the argument.

The roads, which the trucks require, are subsidized by the government.

In other words, I don't see the differences you're claiming.

Net neutrality, as an argument, applies to Internet; I've never seen a claim that it should apply to private networks, even those which use IP/TCP/UDP.

[Supermancho]

> Anyone can buy a router and start an intranet.

Thats more like saying that anyone can pick up a piece of mail and become a mail carrier. There are all manner of legal and practical barriers that require an internet to work outside of your street.

[samatman]

Perhaps this is true where you live.

Where I am, it's a simple matter of setting up some high-power relays and building a mesh network in the permitted radio band. People do it all the time.

Also, I think you meant courier. Mail is quite tightly regulated at the federal level, at least in the United States.

[huffmsa]

As there are to carry packages.

[huffmsa]

And FedEx had a huge initial capital investment to buy the planes and pilots they needed.

$50m-ish I think in 70s-80s money before they even shipped a package.

And they still barely made it off the starting line.