As the Alááshu began to grow bigger again it would take more and more days for news to reach Uwára. The longer it took, the worse issues would be by the time the government could respond, especially when it came to rebellions or other crises a provincial governor could not deal with by themselves. To this end the Alááshu established different communications systems over the decades, with three institutions functioning as the core of these systems: emergency talking drums, postal stations and messenger pigeons.

The emergency talking drums were for short distances and could reach up to seven kilometers away. A talking drum was a drum that could beat at different pitched which had been turned into a language understood by talking drummers. Every village had at least a part-time drummer, generally the mtataza or another wise member of the community, but some signals were so simple most people would understand them, even non-drummers, such as "fire", "flood" and "bandits". More detailed messages could also be transmitted this way and as each next village would repeat the signal the word of the talking drum could travel faster than a bird. The limitations were that a message would be diluted over time and that only relatively short messages, one or two sentences, could be transmitted this quickly.

Postal stations were built along every state road including highways. Every forty kilometers, these stations were operated by at least two messengers and their ponies, and they would relay messages between each station. In this fashion a written letter or a bag of documents could travel at the constant top speed of the hardy Obibo ponies. Stations often had a double purpose as simple taverns and could offer a night's rest to lone travellers afraid of the night. Robbing couriers in service of the state had a heavy punishment tied to it, so the places were considered safe from bandits and robbers. Each army and governor also had their own messengers and inspectors generally had a runner who could inform the nearest postal station within the hour.

However, the fastest way for more complicated information to travel fast was with messenger pigeons. There were not stations everywhere so it was only really possible for messages to go to Uwára and a few important provincial capitals. The pigeons could also only go one way, meaning correspondence through pigeon mail was impossible, but for fast updates, especially from an army, pigeon mail was ideal.

In principle only state documents travelled via the state's systems, but since ponies were capable of carrying much more than a few lettres, it soon became possible for regular folk such as merchants to send their mail from city to city, albeit at a high rate and a much slower speed.