Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Gordon Heights, New York

Start with the ZIP, not the map

An order for Gordon Heights is identified on our side by the ZIP code sitting under the place name, 11763, and that number is what routes the box once it is packed. The name typed into the address field matters less than the five digits below it. Suffolk County holds a lot of small named places sitting close to one another, and buttons bought under one name often end up handed out under three or four others. So the useful starting point is not really a map. It is the roster you are buying for and the one address the box needs to reach.

The address field does most of the work. Put in the street line and the ZIP exactly as the post office has them, 11763, and the rest follows. Phone autocomplete will sometimes swap in a different nearby name attached to those same five digits, which is harmless as long as the street line and the ZIP stay correct. If two people on the same roster are pooling money into one purchase, agree on one name and one address rather than splitting the shipment between two. Every button on an order ships under a single flat charge, so a combined order pays that charge once instead of twice. Picking the order up in person removes the shipping line from the total, and the price per button is unaffected either way.

Five named places inside three and a half miles

Gordon Heights sits in a tight cluster. Middle Island is 1.8 miles away, Coram 2.1, Yaphank 3.0, Medford 3.1 and East Yaphank 3.5. All five are places we also cover, and all five are within three and a half miles. For a button order that matters more than it sounds. A youth or school sports roster does not respect hamlet lines, and the parent collecting the money is usually collecting it across several of those names at once. The sensible move is one order, one artwork file, one shipping charge, then hand the buttons out however the roster happens to be spread. Breaking the same total into four small orders because four families live under four different place names costs you four shipping charges and splits the count four ways, so a band one order would have reached is lost.

Twenty two miles of straight line

The straight line distance from the shop to Gordon Heights is 22.4 miles, due east. It is worth knowing, and it is worth knowing that it changes nothing about what you pay. Distance does not touch the price per button and it does not touch which flat shipping tier the order lands in. The tier is set by the number of buttons on the order and by nothing else.

The five sizes and what each one costs

From 500 to 999 of a size the rate is 30 percent under the listed one. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. Those figures hold whether you are buying a handful or a thousand. Set the count from the list, then ask one question: is any single size a few buttons short of a break? A worked example, using the size most supporter orders settle on: 100 of the 2.25 inch button at $1.59 each, the 100 to 249 rate, 20 percent off, is $159.00 in buttons. Flat shipping on an order that size is $9.99. The order comes to $168.99 before tax. All of that is arithmetic you can do at the kitchen table before you ever open the site, which is the point of a published rate for each band. At the small end the 1 inch is $1.49 and the 1.25 inch is $1.69, which are the two worth looking at when the count is high and the design is simple.

Where the shipping charge steps up

Shipping is a flat charge set by the total number of buttons on the order.

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

1,000 of a single size is quoted by a person rather than priced automatically. The shipping charge does, and it moves in steps, so the one thing genuinely worth checking before you commit is whether your count is sitting just over a boundary. An order of 100 buttons pays $9.99 to ship. An order of 101 pays $14.99, the same as an order of 250. That is not an argument for shorting anyone on the roster. It is an argument for knowing your count before you settle it, because the step is real and it is easy to cross by accident.

Artwork built for a crowd of parents

Supporter buttons for a team in Gordon Heights are usually one design repeated, or two or three designs split across a single order. Printing is full color, from the file you upload, so whatever the team already uses carries straight over: the logo, the mascot, a player number, a photograph. The sizes behave differently once pinned to a jacket. The 1.5 inch reads as a small accent and works best when the design is one bold shape or a single number. The 2.25 inch is the workhorse, with room for a logo and a short line of text together. The 3 inch carries a photograph, or a name and number together, without crowding either. If you split one order across several designs, the count setting your shipping charge is the total across all of them, not each design on its own.

Who usually places this order

If you are the parent who volunteered to organize it, your job is mostly arithmetic and collection. A printed rate ladder makes the first half easy: multiply the size price by the head count, add the one shipping charge for the tier that total falls into, and the number you quote to families is the number you actually pay.

If you are a coach ordering for one squad, you are working from a fixed roster with a fixed number of families behind it. Decide size first, because that is the only lever that changes the per button figure. Everything after that is a count.

If you are a booster treasurer working against an approved budget, the per button rate you can look up is why the budget survives contact with reality. No quantity assumption is buried in the quote, so a roster that grows by six does not invalidate the figures you presented. It adds six times the size price, plus a possible step in the shipping charge.

The three steps are 100, 250 and 500, counted per size. Small counts are not penalized on price. They sit in the lowest shipping tier, and that is the only difference.

Questions we get asked

Our team pulls families from Gordon Heights and from a couple of the hamlets next to it. Should that be one order or several? One order. Sixty of one design and sixty of another at the same size is one hundred and twenty of that size, and both lines are discounted. Ship or collect it as a single batch and divide the buttons up afterward.

If a Gordon Heights order lands at 101 buttons, is it worth dropping back to 100? For shipping, yes. Up to 100 buttons ships at $9.99, and 101 moves the order into the $14.99 tier, which then covers everything up to 250. The price per button is unchanged by the move.

Does a larger order for a Gordon Heights team earn a lower price per button? Yes, and it is worth knowing where the steps are. Different designs of the same size add together for the discount. Different sizes never do. A hundred of one size is the first point where the per button figure drops. Quantity now has two consequences, one on the rate for a size and one on the postage for the order.

Which size do most supporter buttons for a Gordon Heights team use? The 2.25 inch, because it holds a logo and a short line of text comfortably. As a reference point, 100 of them at $1.59 each, the 100 to 249 rate, 20 percent off, is $159.00, plus $9.99 shipping, for $168.99 before tax.

What should the address on a Gordon Heights order actually say? The street line and the ZIP, 11763, written the way the post office has them. If several families are pooling into one purchase, pick one name and one address for the whole order rather than listing more than one.