Early Express Story

For more than 40 years, our goal at Early Express has been to help businesses like yours. Whether that’s filling more seats, retaining members, enrolling more students, selling houses or simply helping you generate more revenue. It’s rewarding to think that our projects enable your success. We are proud to be a local business, supporting the Dayton, Ohio community every day. 

How did we get started?

While these days, we specialize in online and offline marketing solutions, that wasn’t always the case. Early Express was founded by Dayton resident Karen Sensel in 1977 as a mail delivery service. Karen would drive her ’76 Chevy Nova around, delivering mail to her neighbors. While her business garnered some interest from the locals, it wasn’t until the blizzard of ‘78 that her mail delivery business really took off. Fortunately for Karen, the snow caused a demand from local companies interested in having her deliver corporate mail from their Post Office Boxes. 

From there, the success of Early Express continued to grow. Soon, labeling, sorting and data processing were added to the delivery services which made Early Express a reliable partner for many companies in need of improving efficiencies and reducing costs. As more and more customers partnered with Early Express, they urged the company to manage a bigger part of their direct mail printing, packaging and sorting needs. Eventually, this also led Early Express to expand their offerings to include multi-channel efforts such as IP Targeting.

Today, the company is run by Karen’s daughter, Cindy Woodward, and her family. Cindy has built up a team of talented employees, armed with the experience, equipment and passion to offer complete end-to-end direct marketing solutions. 

What does Early Express offer?

While we still deliver mail in some capacity, we offer a variety of omni-channel marketing solutions and professional printing services to support a multitude of businesses. Our integrated marketing solutions combine online and offline marketing to compound campaign effectiveness and ensure results. Our direct mail services can be combined with IP advertising services, such as IP targeting and SiteChaser to create an effective and affordable marketing campaign. Our online print shop offers professional printing for marketing essentials, such as business cards, EDDM mailings and more. 

After four decades of business, it’s still the customers, and the community that surrounds us, that inspires us to show up for work each and every day. For all of you who have stopped by the store to print flyers for a local event or used our IP targeting services to increase awareness of your new business, we thank you. You are the reason we are able to do what we do.