Custom Pin-Back Buttons for East Meadow, New York

Two hundred and fifty of the 2.25 inch button at $1.49 each, 25 percent off because the count clears 250, is $372.50 in buttons, flat shipping on an order that size is $14.99, and the order comes to $387.49 before tax. That is a worked total rather than a ballpark, and it is the kind of figure a volunteer coordinator can put in front of a committee before anyone uploads a single file. What $387.49 buys is 250 round, full colour pin-back buttons, 2.25 inches across, printed from artwork you supply, all of them the same price per button as the first one.

Button orders that come out of a canvassing effort tend to arrive in the same shape. One person has the logo file, another has strong feelings about the colour, and a third wants the total before the group will vote on spending anything. The point of this page is to put the East Meadow numbers in one place: five sizes, one per button rate you can look up each, and a flat shipping charge that steps up at fixed quantities.

What each size costs

There are five sizes and nothing else. The 1 inch button is $1.49 each, the 1.25 inch is $1.69 each, the 1.5 inch is $1.89 each, the 2.25 inch is $1.99 each, and the 3 inch is $2.49 each. A larger count of one size cannot cost more per button than a smaller one. Ten of the 2.25 inch button cost $1.99 each and 999 of them cost $1.39 each, with a thousand of one size going to a quote. There is a reason to round up now, but only one. Landing on 100, 250 or 500 of one size moves every button of that size onto a lower rate. Plan the count around how many people you actually need to hand a button to.

The 1.5 inch size holds a short word or a simple mark. The 2.25 inch size is the one most people picture when they picture a campaign button, with room for a name above a line of smaller text. The 3 inch size gives the most surface for artwork that has several elements in it, a logo plus a slogan plus a district number, for instance, without any of them shrinking to the point of guesswork.

Shipping is flat, and it steps at four points

Shipping is charged per order, not per button, and it is set by the total number of buttons on that order. Up to 100 buttons the charge is $9.99. Up to 250 it is $14.99. Up to 500 it is $19.99. Up to 1000 it is $24.99.

That structure is worth a minute of attention when you are settling on a count. The worked example above sits at exactly 250 buttons, which is the top of the $14.99 tier. Add one more button to that order and the shipping charge moves to the $19.99 tier. The button itself still costs $1.99, because that never changes, but the shipping line on the order is no longer $14.99. The same thing happens just past 100 and just past 500. None of this is a discount for buying more, it is a flat fee that sits still inside a band and then steps. If your count lands a few buttons over a boundary, it is worth asking whether you genuinely need those few. If you do, order them. The point is only to know where the line is before you cross it.

Five places we also cover sit within a short radius

Something unusual falls out of the geography here. The five nearest places we also cover are all inside 2.7 miles: Uniondale at 1.7 miles, Levittown at 2.4 miles, North Merrick at 2.4 miles, North Bellmore at 2.5 miles, and New Cassel at 2.7 miles. Five neighbours that tightly packed is not the normal pattern across Nassau County, and it matters for the way a canvassing operation actually runs. A volunteer base assembled for one effort in East Meadow very often reaches into all five of those places, and the people doing the door knocking do not organise themselves by municipal line.

Practically, that means you rarely have to decide whether a button order belongs to one place or the next. One order, one design, one published rate per button, distributed across whichever of those neighbours your volunteers actually live in. Splitting a run across separate orders splits the count that earns the discount, which is the new reason to keep it together. A single larger order carries one shipping charge and one tier.

The distance, for the record

The straight line distance is 13.9 miles, with the shop lying to the north east. That is a measurement on a map, not a route and not a travel time, and it does not change any figure on your order. The button price is the same at any distance and the shipping charge is set by the number of buttons, not by how far they travel. The number is here because people ask it, and because it is one of the few things about this page that is genuinely local.

What to send us

Buttons are printed in full colour from the file you upload, so whatever you send is what appears on the button. Bear in mind the button is round and the printed area wraps slightly around the edge, so anything you want fully visible, a name, a district number, a small logo, should sit in from the border rather than hard against it. If you have a candidate button and a separate issue button, those are two designs, and the per button price is the same for each.

For the volunteer coordinator counting heads

You know roughly how many canvassers you have and roughly how many you want to hand a button to on top of that. Count the people, then check that number against the shipping tiers before you place the order. That is the whole exercise.

For the treasurer who has to report it

Every line is fixed and nothing is conditional. 100, 250 and 500 of a single size are the three numbers worth knowing. The worked example on this page shows the arithmetic end to end.

For the committee that cannot agree on a size

The five sizes are priced in cents apart from one another, not dollars. If the argument is really about how much text has to fit, go up a size. If it is about the budget, put the five per button prices side by side against your head count and the meeting ends.

For the group ordering buttons for the first time

Nothing about this requires prior experience. Pick a size, pick a count, upload the artwork, and the total is the per button price times the count plus one flat shipping charge. There is no minimum order. One button is a legal order, and the rate for your count is published whatever that count is.

Questions we get

What does a 250 button order for an East Meadow campaign actually total? At 2.25 inches, 250 buttons at $1.49 each, 25 percent off because the count clears 250, is $372.50. Flat shipping for that size of order is $14.99, so the order is $387.49 before tax.

If our East Meadow order goes past 250 buttons, what changes? Only the shipping charge. Buttons stay at theirpublished rate for each band. Crossing 250 moves the order into the next flat shipping tier, which is $19.99 instead of $14.99.

Does the price per button drop if an East Meadow group orders a larger quantity? It does. From 100 of one size the rate is a fifth lower, from 250 a quarter lower and from 500 nearly a third lower. Buy 100 of a size and all 100 are 20 percent cheaper each. Two sizes on one order climb two separate ladders.

Can one East Meadow order cover volunteers who live in Uniondale, Levittown or North Bellmore? Yes. Those places are within 2.7 miles and we cover them as well. Placing one order rather than several means the flat shipping charge is paid once instead of once per order.

How far is East Meadow from the shop, and does that distance affect what we pay? The straight line distance is 13.9 miles, with the shop to the north east. It has no effect on either figure. Buttons are a printed rate ladder per button and the shipping charge is set by how many buttons are on the order.