A not so new method of messaging your friends is launching in Chicago this spring. The service however does not use the internet, or the mail. You can now send a note via carrier pigeon.

Enoch Gulliver of Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood calls it analog messaging, “We’ve been training a fleet of 75 birds. They know how to get to about any location in the city.”

The birds are are trained to fly from the North Side to as far south as Bridgeport.

“We have divided our fleet by training some of the birds to know the South Side, North Side, and others are West Side birds.” Gulliver told snickersee.

“To make things easier for us to keep everything straight, south side birds wear White Sox hats, North Side birds wear Cubbie Blue and the West Side birds sport Bulls gear.” Gulliver continued, “It’s super cute. We think that people will love it.”

Customers will have to download an app to their phone, then type their message, where Gulliver and his partner will print the message and tie the paper to a birds leg. The bird will then will be released and the message will be delivered to its intended recipient eventually.

“While we give no guarantees that the messages will end up where they are supposed to go,” Gulliver said, “Just think about all those pigeons that now have purpose. They will be flying all over the city wearing tiny hats. Knowing that you subscribed to our service should just bring you joy to see the birds out an about in the city. Because, you know you supported this.”

Gulliver hopes to have the app available for both iPhone and android by the end of April. The service should be live by the 30th. There is a limit to the length of the message that the birds can send.

“Think of the content on the little slips of paper as tweets. We would like to keep the messages down to 140 characters.” Gulliver said, “We do have to tie the little slips of paper to the birds legs. It wouldn’t be kind to the bird to have bigger pieces of paper tied to them right?”

No word on how much the service will cost to use, it is expected that their will be a monthly subscription fee to send messages via pigeon. Gulliver hopes to expand his service to Oregon, Washington State, and New York in the future.