Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Lawrence, New York

501 of the 3 inch button at $1.74 each, the 500 to 999 band rate, is $871.74, and the flat shipping on an order of that size is $24.99, so the whole thing comes to $896.73 before tax. That is the number worth starting with, because it is the number a workplace organiser has to put in front of somebody who signs off on spending. Each size climbs its own ladder, and 100 is the first rung. What it buys is 501 full colour three inch pin-back buttons, printed from artwork you upload, each one identical to the last.

Awareness month runs tend to work out this way. Somebody counts the staff, counts the contractors, adds a margin for the people who walk past the table on the second day and want one, and lands on an awkward figure like 501. Then the figure has to be defended. This page is written for the person in Lawrence doing the defending, because the arithmetic is simple enough to explain in a sentence and the one thing that trips these orders up has nothing to do with money at all.

The address line is the part to slow down on

Here is the detail that matters more here than it does almost anywhere else we send buttons. We hold no ZIP code on file for this town. Not a wrong one, not an old one, none. Every order is matched on the street address you type in, and the street address alone. Do not go hunting for a ZIP to satisfy a form field and do not borrow one from a neighbouring place because it looked close enough on a map. A borrowed ZIP is worse than a blank one, because it reads as correct and nobody questions it.

So write the address the way the mail actually finds you. Building number, street name, and then the piece people leave off: the suite, the floor, the unit, the department, the name of the person at the desk who will sign for a box of 501 buttons. A workplace address without an internal identifier is the single most common reason a box ends up in a building's general mailroom rather than with the committee that ordered it. If your office shares a building with four other tenants, say so on the line. There is no character limit worth economising against.

Where the per button rate steps down

Five round sizes, and that is the whole catalogue. The 1.5 inch button is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. A hundred of a size earns 20 percent, and the saving applies to all hundred. One button costs what the thousandth button costs. Do not inflate an order hunting for a discount. Do check whether your count for one size is a few short of 100, 250 or 500, because those three numbers are real. If you need 240, order 240. The smallest is the 1 inch at $1.49. The 1.25 inch, at $1.69, is the one between it and the 1.5 inch.

The 1.5 inch suits a lapel or a badge lanyard and takes a simple mark, a ribbon, a short word. The 2.25 inch is the size most people picture when they picture a button and it holds a logo plus a line of text without crowding. The 3 inch is the one to choose when the design has to be legible from across a room, which is usually why an awareness month run lands on it.

Why 501 costs more to post than 500

Shipping is the only figure on the order that steps. It is flat inside each tier and it is calculated on the total number of buttons, all sizes added together. Up to 100 buttons the shipping is $9.99. Up to 250 it is $14.99. Up to 500 it is $19.99. Up to 1000 it is $24.99.

Which means the worked example above is sitting one button over a line. 501 buttons falls into the $24.99 tier. 500 buttons falls into the $19.99 tier. That single extra button costs $5.00 in postage on top of its own $2.49. Nobody will tell you that when you check out, so check your own count against the boundaries before you commit. If your number lands at 101, or 251, or 501, look at it twice and decide whether the extra one is genuinely needed. Often it was a rounding habit rather than a requirement.

Twenty five miles, in a straight line

Lawrence sits 25.4 miles south west of the shop, measured as a straight line on a map. That is not a drive, it is not a duration, and it is not a promise about anything. It is a geographic fact and the only reason to publish it is so you know roughly where the buttons are being made relative to where you are. Orders going this direction are handled no differently from orders going anywhere else in Nassau County.

The addresses nearby that work the same way

We cover the surrounding addresses on the same terms, and the straight line distances from you are short. Cedarhurst is 0.5 miles. Inwood is 1.2 miles. Woodmere is 1.5 miles. Hewlett is 2.6 miles. South Valley Stream is 2.7 miles. If your organisation has a second site at one of those addresses, the pricing is identical, because the pricing does not vary by location at all.

Artwork, and what the file has to carry

Buttons are printed in full colour from artwork you upload. For an awareness month design, the practical advice is about margins rather than resolution. A round button wraps its outer edge around the shell, so anything sitting hard against the edge of your file gets pulled around the curve and out of sight. Keep the logo, the ribbon and the text inside the middle of the circle and leave the outer band as background colour. If your design has a slogan, read it at the size you are actually ordering, not at the size it appears on your screen.

Four people who place this order

The workplace organiser. You are the one who volunteered, the budget is not really yours, and you need a defensible total. Take the per button price, multiply by your headcount, add the shipping tier, and you have the whole figure with no footnotes.

The committee that meets once. You have one meeting to settle size, design and count. Bring the five prices. Choose the size on what has to fit on it. The count will pick its own band.

The person who inherited it from last year. Somebody ordered these before you and left no notes. You do not need last year's paperwork to price this year's run. The figures on this page are the figures.

The office manager who owns the mailroom. You already know which addresses in your building go astray. You are the right person to write the address line, and you should be the one who types it rather than the person who drew the artwork.

Common questions

Lawrence has no ZIP code of its own on file here, so what do I put on the order? Your street address, in full, with the suite or floor and a named recipient. Skip the ZIP rather than substituting one from somewhere nearby.

Does a small Lawrence order pay more per button than a large one? No. The figure listed is what 1 to 99 of that size costs each. 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 rate steps at three counts and holds level between them.

Our Lawrence office needs 501 buttons. Is there any reason to order 500 instead? Yes, and it is purely postage. 500 keeps the order in the $19.99 shipping tier while 501 moves it to $24.99, a difference of $5.00. A size reaching 100 moves every button of that size onto the lower rate.

Can a single Lawrence order mix the 2.25 inch and the 3 inch? Each size is charged at its own ladder, climbed on its own count, and the shipping tier is worked out on the combined total of buttons across the sizes, so a mixed order of 300 and 150 is treated as 450 buttons for shipping purposes.

We have staff in Woodmere and Inwood as well as Lawrence. Are those addresses covered on the same terms? They are. Both are within a few miles of you, and neither the per button price nor the shipping tiers change based on which of those addresses appears on the order.