Custom Pin-Back Buttons for East Hampton, New York

An order for East Hampton is identified by the address you type into it, and the two fields that carry the weight are the ZIP code, 11937, and the town name on the line above it. Nothing else on the form decides where the carton goes. We take those two fields exactly as you write them. We do not tidy them, and we do not substitute the name we think you meant, because the names out this way sit close enough together that a well meant correction is the likeliest way for a box to go astray. The reason this page opens on the label rather than on buttons is simple: the nearest place we also cover, East Hampton North, is 0.9 miles away and carries almost the same name.

What the label needs from you

Write the recipient line the way your own mail reads. If your statements, your business registration and your delivery slips all show one town name and the 11937 ZIP, that is the version to use. If your shop sign says one thing and your mail says another, follow the mail. The ZIP is the field a carrier sorts on, and the town name is the field a human reads when a carrier has a question, so the pair should agree with each other rather than with local habit.

If you are ordering for a storefront and having it delivered to a home address, or the reverse, put the address that someone will actually be standing at. There is no premium and no surcharge attached to either one. The address changes nothing about the price of a button.

Two names, nine tenths of a mile apart

Nine tenths of a mile is an unusually tight gap between two separately listed places, and it is the one detail worth knowing before you check out. East Hampton North is a distinct entry in our coverage, not a nickname, not an alternate spelling, and not a neighbourhood label we invented. Both are covered. A size reaching 100 moves every button of that size onto the lower rate. The only thing the distinction affects is which line of the address is correct for you.

So there is no decision to agonise over. Copy the town name off a piece of mail, put the ZIP beside it, and the order routes itself. Nothing about the buttons, the sizes or the price is sitting behind that choice.

The places around you we also cover

The same page, the same five sizes and the same per-button prices apply across a wide ring here in Suffolk County. Northwest Harbor is 4.1 miles out. Springs is 4.6 miles. Noyack is 8.8 miles. Shelter Island is 10.8 miles. If you run a shop in one of those and live in another, or you split an order between a counter and a house, none of it moves the cost of the pins. Two things respond to a bigger count: what each button of that size costs, and the single postage line.

63.5 miles, measured straight

The town sits 63.5 miles east of the shop as a straight line drawn on a map. That is a distance and nothing more, not a route and not a travel time, and we give it as a straight line because that is the only version of it we can state without guessing. The number does not enter the price anywhere. A button costs what a button costs at 63.5 miles and at one mile.

Five sizes, and the rate each one starts at

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. All five are full colour, printed from artwork you upload. The smallest is the 1 inch at $1.49. The 1.25 inch, at $1.69, is the one between it and the 1.5 inch.

One rate per size per band, and every size uses the same band boundaries. They are the same figure on a very small run and the same figure on a very large one. The only quantity worth inflating is one sitting just under 100, 250 or 500 of a size, and then only because the bigger order is cheaper. If you are comparing a smaller run against a larger one, the buttons themselves scale in a perfectly straight line, and the only step anywhere in the calculation is the flat shipping tier.

Working an order out on paper

Take 400 of the 3 inch button, which is a plausible size for a counter giveaway at a small retailer. At $1.87 each, the 250 to 499 band rate, the buttons are $748.00. Four hundred buttons falls in the up to 500 shipping tier, which is $19.99 flat. The order comes to $767.99 before tax.

The four tiers, counted on total buttons across the whole order:

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

The tiers are worth a glance before you finalise a count, because they are the only place a boundary exists. An order of 250 buttons ships at $14.99. Adding a single button past 250 moves the whole order into the next tier at $19.99. If your number is hovering just above 250, or just above 100, or just above 500, look at it once. Trimming back to the round number keeps you in the lower tier. Going over it does not cost you anything on the buttons themselves, since those never change price, so the only question is whether the extra pins are worth the step up in the shipping figure.

Four kinds of order from a small retailer

The loyalty pin. You give one pin to a customer at a certain point, a tenth visit or a first purchase, and it does the job a paper card used to do without the paper. The 1.5 inch is the usual choice here because it reads as a token rather than a badge.

The staff pin. One design per person or one design for the whole counter, worn on an apron or a lanyard. Look up the rate for your count of that size, multiply once, and add the single shipping charge.

The promo pin for a table. If you are taking a folding table somewhere and want something to hand across it, the 2.25 inch is the one to reach for: big enough for a logo and a line of text, small enough to give away freely.

The statement pin. A single strong graphic at 3 inch, sold rather than given, priced by you at whatever a shop item is priced at. This is the size in the worked example above, and it is the one where uploaded artwork has room to breathe.

Questions we get from the 11937 ZIP

Is the price per button different for East Hampton than for anywhere else you cover? No. The five prices are the same everywhere: $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 and $2.49. Location affects nothing about the per-button cost.

My mailing address is East Hampton and the next place you cover is 0.9 miles away. Does that closeness change anything about my order? No. It changes only which town name belongs on the address line. Copy it from your own mail and the rest follows.

I run a shop in East Hampton and want 400 of the 3 inch button. What is the total? $748.00 for the buttons, plus $19.99 flat shipping for an order in the up to 500 tier, which is $767.99 before tax.

If I order 250 pins for East Hampton and then decide to add one more, does the shipping change? Yes. At 250 buttons the flat tier is $14.99. One button past that moves the order into the up to 500 tier at $19.99. The order total does not set the rate. A single size's count does.

Can one East Hampton order mix the five sizes? Yes. Each size is charged at its own band, set by its own count, and the shipping tier is worked out on the total number of buttons across the order rather than per size.