Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Holbrook, New York

Every order placed from this far east starts with one decision, and it is worth settling before anything else: collect the buttons in person, or have them shipped. Neither answer is right for everybody. Somebody with a reason to be heading west anyway may well prefer to collect. A club secretary working through a membership list at the kitchen table in Holbrook will usually rather pay the flat shipping and stay put. The rest of this page assumes you have not decided yet, and gives you the numbers either way.

Five neighbours inside a 3.4 mile radius

The thing that quietly shapes most orders around here is how tightly packed the surrounding coverage is. Holtsville sits 2.1 miles away. North Patchogue is 2.5 miles, Lake Ronkonkoma 2.8 miles, Bohemia 3.3 miles and Farmingville 3.4 miles. All five of the nearest places we also cover fall inside a 3.4 mile radius.

For a club or a society that matters more than it sounds. Memberships rarely stop at a ZIP boundary, and a roster built around 11741 will almost always carry names from those five places too. You do not need five separate orders for that. One order covers the lot, and one member carries the box to the next meeting. It also means the collect or ship question gets answered once, by one person, on behalf of everyone, rather than five times over.

The distance, and what it does to that decision

In a straight line the shop sits 18.0 miles west of Holbrook. Treat that as a straight line figure and nothing more, a rough sense of separation rather than a route. It is far enough that nobody should build a plan around collecting unless the trip was already happening for another reason. It is also close enough that plenty of people do collect, usually because they were going to be on that side of Suffolk County regardless.

If the trip is not already on the calendar, shipping is the sensible default, and its cost is fixed and knowable before you order. That is the whole calculation.

Five sizes, and nothing else

There are five round pin-back buttons: 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch. All five are printed in full colour from artwork you upload.

The 1.5 inch is the standard membership pin, the one that sits on a lapel or a lanyard without taking the whole thing over. The 2.25 inch is the common pick when a design carries a crest, a year and a line of text, because at 1.5 inch that much detail starts to crowd. The 3 inch is for a design that has to read across a hall: an officer badge, a committee marker, a giveaway on a table.

Plenty of clubs order more than one size, and nothing stops you. A run of 1.5 inch member pins and a short run of 3 inch officer badges is one order.

What a hundred buttons actually comes to

Prices are per button and they do not move:

• 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

That is the price on the smallest order and the identical price on the largest. The breaks are on the buttons themselves, at 100, 250 and 500 of one size, and they come off the whole run of that size. The useful consequence is that you can price the whole thing yourself on a pocket calculator and bring a real number to the committee.

Worked through: 100 of the 1.5 inch button at $1.51 each, which is the 100 to 249 rate, is $151.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $9.99, so the order comes to $160.99 before tax.

Where the shipping line steps up

Shipping is flat, and it is set by the total number of buttons on the order, whatever mix of sizes makes up that total:

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

Both the button line and the shipping line respond to quantity, and both respond in steps rather than smoothly, at different counts and from different totals. One hundred buttons ships at $9.99. One hundred and one ships at $14.99.

That is not an argument for shortchanging your membership. It is an argument for checking the count before you submit. If the roster honestly needs more than a hundred, order what it needs. If it sits at 101 only because somebody added a spare out of caution, the spare is worth a second look: it adds $1.51 at 1.5 inch and moves the shipping line up a full tier on its own.

Artwork, and the club crest problem

Full colour printing from your own file means the crest goes on as it stands. The usual snag with society artwork is not the printing, it is the source. Crests get redrawn by successive secretaries, and the version circulating in the group chat is often a photograph of a printed newsletter. Track down the best original anybody still holds before you order.

Round is the only shape, which matters for layout more than people expect. A rectangular logo with a long society name underneath has to be arranged to sit inside a circle, and that is a decision somebody should make on purpose rather than discover after the fact.

Four people who end up placing this order

The membership secretary. You have a list, the list has a number at the bottom, and that number is your order. Price per button times headcount, plus one shipping line, is the entire budget.

The treasurer. Your interest is that the figure approved at the meeting is the figure on the invoice. Two figures move as the count grows: the rate band for each size, and the shipping tier for the order as a whole.

The organiser running a recruitment drive. You are ordering pins for people who are not members yet, so you are guessing at a number. Guess with the tier boundaries in view and settle on a total you are comfortable sitting inside.

The volunteer who got handed this. You did not ask for it. Five sizes, four price bands on each, one flat shipping line, and the option to collect if you were going to be over that way. That is all of it.

Questions people actually ask

Can I collect a Holbrook order myself instead of paying for shipping? Yes. Local pickup is free, so the shipping line comes off the order entirely. Whether it is worth doing comes down to whether you were making the trip west regardless. If you were not, the flat shipping tier is usually the easier call.

Our club has members in Holbrook and in the neighbouring places you cover, can that all go on one order? Yes, and it usually should. Holtsville, North Patchogue, Lake Ronkonkoma, Bohemia and Farmingville all sit within 3.4 miles, so one order and one handover at a meeting reaches a membership spread across the lot of them. Shipping is charged once on the order, not once per member.

Does a Holbrook club ordering 250 buttons pay less per button than one ordering

100? No. The order total does not set the rate. A single size's count does. The only difference between those two orders is which flat shipping tier they land in.

What is shipping on 500 buttons to Holbrook? $19.99. Splitting a run across designs is free as long as the designs are the same size.

We counted 101 pins for our Holbrook roster, is it worth trimming to 100? That is the one boundary worth pausing over. At 100 the shipping line is $9.99, and at 101 it is $14.99. If the 101st pin is for a real member, order it. If it is a spare somebody added just in case, you may prefer to leave it off.