Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Brooklyn, New York

Which ZIP code should a Brooklyn order use? None, because there is no ZIP on file for it here. Orders are keyed to the street address you type into the shipping fields, and that address is what the label is printed from. A building number, a street, a unit or floor or suite where one applies, and New York as the state is a complete order. Nothing is missing and nothing needs to be worked around.

The address is the whole record

Because the postal code is not doing any of the identifying work, the street line carries all of it. Two things are worth a second look before you submit. The first is the unit designator. Floor, suite, booth, room, department: whichever one applies, put it on the address line rather than in a notes box, so it travels with the label instead of sitting in a field the carrier never sees. The second is the recipient name. If the buttons are going to a building where a front desk signs for everything, a care-of name gets them to the right desk on the right floor. Neither of these is unusual. They simply matter more when the address is the only key the order has.

If you are ordering for a booth or a table rather than an office, the same logic applies with the hall or venue name on the first line and the booth or table number on the second. The order does not care what kind of building it is. It cares that the lines are complete.

Five sizes, and what each one costs

There are five round pin-back buttons and nothing else. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. The lowest per button figure belongs to the 1 inch at $1.49; the 1.25 inch is $1.69.

A larger count of one size cannot cost more per button than a smaller one. One prices itself at the listed rate, and one thousand of one size goes to a quote instead of an automatic price. You no longer have to guess where the break sits, which means you can order your real number and then look up whether a few more would cost less.

All five are full colour and printed from artwork you upload. The size choice is usually a legibility choice. The 1.5 inch holds a mark and a few words. The 2.25 inch gives a logo room to sit above a line of type. The 3 inch is the one people pick when a QR code or a booth number has to read from arm's length.

Where the cost does move

Shipping is a flat charge, set by the total number of buttons on the order, not by size or by weight:

• up to 100 buttons $9.99
• up to 250 buttons $14.99
• up to 500 buttons $19.99
• up to 1000 buttons $24.99

Count one size for the rate and every size for the postage. That is worth knowing when your planned quantity lands just over a line.

A real order, run end to end

Take 501 of the 1.5 inch button. At $1.32 each, which is the 500 to 999 rate, that is $661.32 in buttons. An order of that size falls into the $24.99 shipping tier, so the total is $686.31 before tax.

Now move one button. Ordering 500 instead of 501 keeps the order inside the

$19.99 tier and saves $5.00 on postage. The buttons themselves are not any cheaper per unit at 500, because they never are. You are simply staying under a shipping line instead of crossing it for a single extra piece. Whenever your number sits within a few units of 100, 250, 500 or 1000, it is worth checking which side of the line you are on before you submit.

How far out you are

In a straight line, Brooklyn sits 33.0 miles south west of Huntington. Straight line is the honest way to state it, since it does not pretend to know anything about a route.

Several places we also cover are closer to you than that. Manhattan is 7.5 miles from you, Queens 7.6, Inwood 10.6, Staten Island 11.5, and Lawrence 11.8. This comes up more than you would think, because a team ordering together is often spread across several of these at once, and people want to know whether that splits the order. It does not have to. One shipment goes to one address, and where the people picking them up happen to live has no bearing on it.

Four ways people order these

The exhibitor with a booth. You have a stack of literature nobody takes and you want one thing people will actually put on. A button with the logo and the booth number works because it is small enough to accept and visible enough to travel around the hall on someone else's jacket.

The panel or session organiser. You need attendees for one specific session identified at a glance, separate from general badge holders. A single design in one size, ordered to roughly the seat count, does that without a second system to manage.

The small team sharing a table. Three or four people, one shared stand, and no budget for custom apparel. Matching buttons at 2.25 inch give the group a consistent look across whatever everyone already owns.

The person ordering for a multi-day run. You want a different design for each day, or a different colour per product line. Splitting a run across separate orders splits the count that earns the discount, which is the new reason to keep it together.

Questions we get from Kings County

Our Brooklyn address has no ZIP on file with you. Will the order still process?

Yes. The order is routed from the street address you enter, so a complete street line with the unit and the state is all the record needs.

Can a Brooklyn order ship to a venue or event address instead of our office?

Yes. Put the venue name on the first address line and the hall, booth or room number on the second, and add a care-of name if a front desk will be receiving it.

Does ordering a thousand buttons for a Brooklyn trade show get us a lower price per button?

No. Ten and a thousand of one size are not the same rate any more: ten pays the listed rate, and a thousand of a single size is where a quote takes over from an automatic price. Two figures move as the count grows: the rate band for each size, and the shipping tier for the order as a whole.

Our Brooklyn order comes to 501 buttons. Is there any reason to change that?

There is one. At 501 the order falls into the $24.99 shipping tier, while 500 stays in the $19.99 tier, a $5.00 difference in postage for one button. 100, 250 and 500 of a single size are the three numbers worth knowing.

Our people are split between Brooklyn and Staten Island. Do we need two orders?

Not unless you want two destinations. One order ships to one address, and the shipping tier is set by the total button count on that order. If you do split it into two orders, each one is priced into its own tier by its own count, so the combined postage can work out higher than sending the whole quantity to a single address.