Slow messaging for your closest people

Some words are worth the wait.

DAAK rebuilds the 1990s Indian postal system in software. Write a real letter, drop it in a red pillar box, and follow it — clearances, mail trains and all — until it reaches their gate.

Apno ke naam.
Not a delay. A journey.

Your letter travels through a real world

Every rate, rule, route and transit time comes from the documented 1980s–90s Indian postal network. We didn’t invent an economy — the Government of India spent seventy years balancing one for us.

01 — Post

Catch the clearance

Every pillar box clears at fixed hours. Post at 5:55 and your letter moves tonight; post at 6:05 and it waits until morning.

02 — Travel

Sorted on a moving train

Datestamped, bagged, and sorted aboard the night mail. Every real hop of the 1990s network — and every hop is a notification.

03 — Arrive

Delivered by hand

The postman cycles to their gate with your letter, carrying every datestamp it collected along the way.

Real 1990 prices

Five ways to send a word

Speed, cost, privacy and length — all in tension, exactly as they were.

Post Card
15p
Four lines, open for anyone in the chain to read. The cheapest word in India.
Inland Letter Card
75p
Folds into its own envelope and gums shut. The cheapest private letter.
Envelope
₹1 / 20g
Weigh it, stamp it yourself. More words literally costs more.
Aerogramme
₹15 flat
One price to every country on earth. Nothing may be enclosed.
Telegram
₹3.50 / 30 words
Near-instant, ALL CAPS, address included in the count. STOP costs a word.
Letters between two real people

Write one now, or hear from us later

Write a letter and share the link — it reaches them hours later, carrying every postmark it collected on the way. No account needed to send one. Leave your address if you’d rather we wrote to you as DAAK grows.