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this is extremely difficult, as such a network would face global opposition and containment. The reason is that, once established, it would inevitably become entangled with black- and grey-market activities.
It does not need to be, and I'm looking for an alternative to deal with white and grey market items. nothing illegal. I think networks already exist, some p2p. The issue there is having the "transport" to accept crypto as payment.
I think what @b is saying is that if you operate such a logistics network it would inevitably start to be used by customers who would start using it to ship illegal goods. If you provide good privacy, you won't be able to prevent this for the most part. Maybe if you have a well trained drug dog and an Xray machine you can do something, but that's about it (as far as I can think of). Any organization like that would likely be vulnerable to a RICO case too (extreme guilt by association). It's high risk for low margins considering how cheap shipping through the white market is. There's a reason DNMs use USPS versus building out such a network. Fun fact, Lysander Spooner did this and out competed the post office for a long time until he got shut down by the gov.
All in all, not saying it's an impossible problem to solve, but it's a hard one.
This is a challenge many people face; if someone were capable of establishing a logistics network that offered maximum privacy protection (strictly for legal goods, of course), it would be incredibly lucrative—surpassing the profit margins of many black- and grey-market industries. In reality, however, this is extremely difficult, as such a network would face global opposition and containment. The reason is that, once established, it would inevitably become entangled with black- and grey-market activities.