Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Glenwood Landing, New York

There are two honest ways to get a box of buttons into your hands from out this way, and it is worth settling which one you want before you look at sizes and totals: either somebody from your end collects the order in person, or the order gets shipped to you. Neither one is the right answer in general. It depends on whether a trip east is something you were making anyway, and on how many buttons are on the order, because shipping is charged as a flat tier on the whole order rather than per button. Most of the small retailers we deal with out in Glenwood Landing settle it once and then keep settling it the same way.

Where the miles actually fall

The straight line distance is 12.9 miles, running west out of Huntington. It is a straight line figure and nothing to do with roads, but it is far enough that collecting in person is a real errand rather than a detour, which is why the choice at the top of this page is a genuine choice and not a formality. If you are coming east anyway, collecting costs you nothing on the order. If you are not, the flat shipping tier is usually the easier answer.

The places right around you sit at much the same remove, and we cover all of them: Glen Head 1.1 miles off, Sea Cliff 1.7, East Hills 2.2, Glen Cove 2.5, Port Washington 2.8. If you share a stretch of storefronts with owners in any of those, you are all effectively the same distance from us, which matters when a few shops put one order together instead of four.

An address that has to carry the whole job

Glenwood Landing has no ZIP code of its own on file with us. That is not a problem, but it changes what you should type. The street address identifies the destination, so give it in full: number, street, unit or suite, the business name if the box is going to a storefront rather than a house, and the town and state written the way your mail normally comes. Do not borrow a code from a neighbouring village because it looks more complete. Write the address exactly as it appears on anything else that reaches you.

It is worth checking twice when somebody other than the owner places the order. A staff member typing a shop address from memory tends to drop the unit number, and where the street address alone identifies the destination, that unit number is doing real work.

Five sizes, and what a hundred of one does

There are five round pin-back sizes and nothing else.

• The 1 inch $1.49 each
• The 1.25 inch $1.69 each
• The 1.5 inch $1.89 each
• The 2.25 inch $1.99 each
• The 3 inch $2.49 each

There is a discount at 100 of a size, a better one at 250 and the best online one at 500. 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. The two sets of boundaries sit on the same three numbers and are counted from different totals.

Choosing between them is a question of what the artwork has to do. The 1.5 inch sits on a lapel or an apron strap without announcing itself. The 2.25 inch is the one most shops land on, big enough for a logo and a short line of text together. The 3 inch carries one bold image or a few large words and reads from across a room.

A worked order, start to finish

Take 750 of the 2.25 inch button. At $1.39 each, 30 percent under the 1 to 99 figure, that is $1042.50 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order that size is $24.99, so the order comes to $1067.49 before tax.

The full tier table, 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

Notice where 750 sits. It is in the top band, so it pays exactly the same $24.99 as an order of 501 would and exactly the same as an order of 1000 would. Once you are just over a tier boundary the shipping line has already gone up, and it will not go up again inside that band. The extra buttons still cost their own rate, on their own count, so this is not a discount and not free freight. It only means that if you were weighing 520 against 700, the shipping half of that comparison is settled.

The tier also counts total buttons, not buttons of one size. Two hundred of the 1.5 inch and two hundred of the 2.25 inch is four hundred buttons, sitting in the up to 500 band as one order.

Artwork and the shape of a circle

Everything is printed full colour from artwork you upload. What people underestimate is what a circle does to a rectangular logo. The printed sheet wraps around the rim, so anything sitting hard against the outer edge of your design curves away from the front face and stops reading straight on. Keep the essential text and the important part of the mark inward, and let the background do the work near the boundary.

Fine linework is the other thing to watch. Hairline strokes and small tagline text hold together at 3 inch, usually hold at 2.25 inch, and often close up at 1.5 inch. If you want the small size, use a stripped back version of the mark rather than the full lockup shrunk down.

Four kinds of shop, four ways of using them

The loyalty pin. Instead of a card that lives in a wallet and gets lost, the customer gets something they wear. One design, usually the 1.5 inch, ordered deep because the rate falls as that one size's count passes 100, 250 and 500.

The purchase giveaway. A button in the bag above a certain spend. These tend to be 2.25 inch with the shop mark and a single line, and they tend to get reordered in the same size so that the look stays consistent across the year.

The sidewalk table. When a shop sets up outside, the 3 inch does the job the 1.5 inch cannot, because it is legible to somebody who has not stopped walking yet. Shops often run both sizes on one order and let the tier count the total.

The shared order. Several independent Glenwood Landing owners on one stretch, each with their own design, going in on a single order. Nothing about the published per button rate changes by doing this, but the one shipping tier gets split between them instead of each shop paying its own.

Questions people ask

Is there a ZIP code I should use for a Glenwood Landing delivery address? No, and you should not invent one or copy one from a neighbouring village. Enter the full street address including the unit number, plus the business name if it is a storefront, and the town and state as you normally write them.

Can I collect a Glenwood Landing order in person instead of having it shipped? Yes. Collecting in person means the flat shipping tier does not apply to the order at all. Whether that is worth the errand from where you are is the judgement call this page opened with.

Does a bigger order lower the per button price for a shop in Glenwood Landing? It does, in three steps. A hundred of one size is the first point it changes, and it changes again at 250 and 500. The rate you pay depends on how many of that one size are on the order. A larger order costs more in total and less per button, and two lines move with quantity: the rate band for each size and the shipping tier for the order.

If I run a Glenwood Landing shop and order 750 of the 2.25 inch, what is the total? $1042.50 in buttons at $1.39 each, 30 percent under the 1 to 99 figure, plus $24.99 flat shipping, which is $1067.49 before tax.

Can one Glenwood Landing order carry more than one design or size? Yes. Mixed sizes and mixed designs sit on a single order, and the shipping tier is worked out on the total number of buttons across all of them rather than on each design separately.