Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Manorville, New York

An order for Manorville is identified on our end by one line, the ZIP code 11949, and that is the line that decides which way east the box goes once it leaves us. It matters more here than it does in most of Suffolk County, because the addresses immediately around this one belong to a cluster of separate places, all of them close together, several of them sharing a surname. Get the ZIP right on the order form and everything downstream is settled. Get it loose and a box aimed at a shop counter can end up a few miles off, at a different counter entirely.

One ZIP code inside a very tight ring

11949 is the only ZIP we route to here, which makes the addressing side simple. What is not simple is the neighbourhood. Five of the other places we cover sit within five miles: Calverton at 3.5 miles, East Moriches at 4.0, Center Moriches at 4.3, Moriches at 4.5 and Mastic at 4.8. Three of those five carry the word Moriches, and we see the consequence of that on order forms regularly. Somebody types the street and the town from memory, drops the ZIP, and the order sits there ambiguous until we ask.

So the habit we ask for is small. Put 11949 on the order. If the shipping address and the billing address point at two different ones of those six places, say so in the order notes rather than assuming we will spot it. Nothing about the buttons themselves changes. Only the label does.

Five sizes, and what each one costs

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes and nothing else. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. The small end is the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69, which read as pins rather than badges.

Those arepublished rate for each band. Twelve is charged at the listed rate. Twelve hundred of one size is the point where a person quotes it instead. There are three numbers that change it, and they are 100, 250 and 500 of one size. We say this plainly because most people ordering promotional items expect the opposite and plan their quantity around a discount that does not exist here.

All five are full colour, printed from artwork you upload with the order.

The one place distance shows up in your total

Manorville sits 31.9 miles east of the shop, measured as a straight line rather than as a route. That figure is worth knowing, but it is not worth much to your invoice, because shipping is not priced by how far the box travels. It is priced by how many buttons are on the order, in flat tiers:

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

A worked example, using the 1 inch. Order 501 of the 1.5 inch button at $1.32 each, the 500 to 999 band rate, and the buttons come to $661.32. An order of that size falls in the $24.99 shipping tier, so the total is $686.31 before tax.

Every shop thirty miles further out pays exactly those same four figures. The distance changes nothing in the shipping column.

The five dollars sitting on a boundary line

Look again at that example, because it is the one situation where the quantity you pick actually moves money. A Manorville order of 501 buttons is one button over the 500 boundary, which pushes the whole order out of the $19.99 tier and into the $24.99 tier. Dropping the count to 500 saves $5.00 on postage.

The rate you pay depends on how many of that one size are on the order. At 500 and at 501 the 1.5 inch is $1.32 each either way, because both counts sit in the 500 to 999 band. You are not buying cheaper buttons at 500, you are buying one fewer button and paying a smaller flat shipping charge for it. That is the only mechanism on this page where the number you type has any effect beyond multiplication, and it only bites when a count lands just past 100, 250, 500 or 1000. If your planned quantity is sitting one to five buttons over one of those marks, it is worth another look before you submit.

Artwork that has to work at counter size

Most of what we print for retailers is a shop mark, a short line of text, or both. Two practical notes. First, a 1.5 inch button is a small canvas, and a logo with a tagline set underneath it in small type will come out as a grey smudge of a tagline. If the wordmark matters, either give it the whole face or move up to the 2.25 inch. Second, leave a margin. The printed face wraps very slightly over the curve of the shell, so anything pushed hard against the edge of your file loses a sliver. Keep type and logo edges inside the circle with room to spare.

Full colour means what it says. Multiple colours cost the same as one, so there is no reason to simplify artwork for price.

Who tends to order these out here

The shop with a punch card it never printed. You were going to do loyalty properly, and the card stock quote came back and the idea died. A pin is the other version of the same idea: the customer wears the mark, and the mark is visible in the aisle instead of buried in a wallet. One size, one design, reorder when the drawer empties.

The boutique running a seasonal promotion. You need something to hand across the counter with a purchase over a certain amount. The 1.5 inch at $1.51 is the size that gets used this way most often, and a reorder is priced on its own count, so a monthly hundred earns the 100 to 249 rate every month rather than accumulating towards anything.

The counter that sells to trade. Feed, hardware, marine supply, anything with regulars who arrive in work clothes. The 2.25 inch at $1.99 reads from further away, which is the point when it ends up on a jacket rather than a tote bag.

The owner with more than one storefront. If your second location is one of the five places listed above, you do not need two orders. One order, one artwork file, one button count, and you split the box yourself when it lands.

Questions we get from shops in 11949

Does a Manorville order cost more to ship than one going to Calverton or Mastic? No. Shipping is a flat tier based on the total number of buttons on the order. The destination is not part of the calculation, so all six of those places pay the same four figures.

I have a counter here and a second one in Center Moriches. Can both go on one Manorville order? Yes, and it usually helps. The shipping tier counts total buttons on the order, so combining 300 and 200 into a single order of 500 sits in the $19.99 tier instead of paying $14.99 twice. Ship it all to one address and split it yourself.

Is the per button price for a Manorville shop different at 100 than it is at 1000? It does, in three steps. 100 of one size pays 20 percent under the listed rate, and 1000 of one size is a quote rather than an automatic price. It is $1.89 for the 1.5 inch, $1.99 for the 2.25 inch and $2.49 for the 3 inch, which is the 1 to 99 rate for each size. From 500 to 999 of a size the rate is 30 percent under the listed one.

My Manorville order comes to 501 buttons. Is there a reason to change it? There is one. At 501 you are in the $24.99 shipping tier. At 500 you are in the $19.99 tier, which saves $5.00. The buttons themselves cost $1.89 each in both cases.

How do I keep a Manorville order from being addressed to one of the neighbouring places by mistake? Put 11949 on the shipping address rather than relying on the town name alone. With Moriches, East Moriches and Center Moriches all inside five miles, the ZIP is the field that removes the ambiguity, and it is the field we check first.