Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Kings Park, New York

Collect them yourself, or have them sent

Before sizes, before artwork, before totals, there is one practical decision to make: whether you are going to collect your buttons in person or pay the flat shipping and have them come to you. That choice sits at the front of every order placed out of Kings Park, and it is worth settling first because it is the only part of the price that actually moves. Collecting means the shipping line is not there at all. Having them sent adds one flat figure, set by how many buttons are on the order and by nothing else. Neither answer is the smarter one. They are just two different ways to end up holding the same box.

The number, since it helps to have it

The straight line measurement between the shop and Kings Park is 7.8 miles, running east. That is a straight line and not a route, so read it as a rough sense of proximity rather than something you can plan a morning around. What it tells you is modest but useful: this is not a haul in either direction. If you would rather put hands on the order yourself, that is a reasonable thing to want. If you would rather never think about the geography again, the flat shipping figure exists for exactly that reason.

Five neighbours, every one inside four miles

The thing worth knowing about this pocket of Suffolk County is how tightly it is packed. Fort Salonga sits 2.7 miles off. Smithtown is 3.3 miles. Smithtown Pines is 3.6, East Northport is 3.8, and Commack is 4.0. Five places we already cover, none of them past the four mile mark.

For one household that is trivia. For somebody organising buttons on behalf of a group, it changes the shape of the job. Team families rarely live in one ZIP code. They spread across the township and the ones beside it, which normally means a coordination headache. Here it does not, because the whole spread is inside a radius you could draw with a short piece of string, with Kings Park near the centre of it. One person places one order, one shipping tier applies to the whole thing, and handing them out afterwards is a conversation at a field rather than five separate deliveries.

What a set of supporter buttons costs

The three steps are 100, 250 and 500, counted per size.

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

A hundred of one size is the first point where the per button figure drops. Padding a count across sizes gains nothing, because sizes are counted separately. The only padding that pays is inside one size, at a boundary. Order the number you genuinely need and stop there.

A worked example, because team orders tend to land in the same range. Forty of the 1.5 inch button at $1.89 each is $75.60 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order that size is $9.99, so the order comes to $85.59 before tax. Collect instead and the $9.99 is simply absent from the total.

Where quantity does matter: the shipping tiers

Shipping is charged 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

Those tiers step rather than slide, and that is the one place where your count is worth a second look. An order of one hundred buttons ships at $9.99. Add a single button past that and the shipping line becomes $14.99, while every button on the order still costs precisely what it cost before. If your roster count is hovering just above a boundary, it is worth knowing which side of the line you are on before you check out. That is the entire trick. There is nothing else hiding in the pricing.

Five sizes, and what each one is good for

There are five round sizes and no others. The 1.5 inch is the one most team orders are built from: small enough that a family can take four without thinking about it, big enough for a logo, a number and a short name. The 2.25 inch is where most photographs start to read properly, so it suits the ones with a face on them. The 3 inch is the size you use when something has to be legible from the far side of a bench: a jersey number, a single bold word, a mascot with room to breathe.

Nothing stops you from mixing them on one order. Each size keeps its own band, set by its own count, and the shipping tier counts every button on the order regardless of which size it is.

Getting the artwork right

Buttons are printed in full colour from artwork you upload. The practical advice is the same whatever the design: keep the important part away from the outer edge, because the printed sheet wraps around the curve of the button and anything sitting right at the rim will roll out of view. Strong contrast beats fine detail, especially at 1.5 inch. A name set in a thin script will lose against the same name set in something solid. If you are producing one button per athlete, build the layout once and swap the name and number inside it, so the set reads as a set.

Four people this page is written for

The parent who volunteered. You said yes at a meeting and now you are holding the roster. Do the count, pick one size, place one order, hand them out at a game. The per button rate for your count means you do not have to defend a number to anyone.

The coach. You want something for the bench, the staff and the people who drive the van. Small counts are fine. There is still no minimum. A single button is an order, and the bands only ever work in your favour above it.

The person running the table. You are collecting for something at a home game and buttons are the thing people can actually carry away. Work backwards from the number you expect to move, check which shipping tier that count lands in, and price the rest of your table around a total you already know.

The relative buying a handful. A grandparent, a sibling, someone in Kings Park with two kids on two different teams. Two designs, a few of each, one order. One pays the listed rate, and a hundred pays 20 percent under the listed rate.

Questions that come up

Is a forty button order too small to bother placing from Kings Park? No. Sizes are priced separately, so it is a hundred of one size that earns the break. Forty is a normal order.

Does ordering from Kings Park cost more than ordering from closer in? It does not. The per button price is the same figure everywhere, and the shipping tier is set by how many buttons are on the order, not by where it is going.

Our families are split between Kings Park and the towns next to it. One order or several? One. Put the whole count on a single order and a single shipping tier covers it. Splitting it into separate orders only means paying a separate shipping figure on each.

If a Kings Park team order lands exactly on one hundred buttons, what happens? One hundred ships at $9.99. The hundred and first button pushes the order into the $14.99 tier. 100 and 101 both sit in the 100 to 249 band, so it is purely a question of which shipping tier you want to sit in.

Can a Kings Park order mix the five sizes together? Yes. Each size holds its own rate, worked out from its own count per button, and the shipping tier is worked out from the combined count across all three.