Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Mastic Beach, New York

Custom pin-back buttons for 11951

Orders for Mastic Beach carry a single ZIP code, 11951, and that code is what identifies an order and routes it. There is no second code to choose between, so the address line on a favour order does its whole job in one go. That counts for more than it sounds like when somebody else is placing the order on your behalf, which on a wedding or a shower is usually what happens. The rest of this page covers the five sizes, the per button rate for your count per button, and the one quantity decision that genuinely changes what you pay.

The five sizes and what each one costs

There are five round pin-back buttons and nothing else. The 1 inch is $1.49 per button, the 1.25 inch is $1.69 per button, the 1.5 inch is $1.89 per button, the 2.25 inch is $1.99 per button, and the 3 inch is $2.49 per button. All five are full colour, printed from artwork you upload.

At 250 of one size the rate is a quarter below the listed one. A run of twenty is charged at the listed rate and a run of six hundred at 30 percent less, because six hundred of a size reaches the bottom band. Order honestly and check the boundaries once. Those two steps are the whole of the decision.

What the size does change is how much of a design stays readable. Two first names and a date sit comfortably on the 1.5 inch. A monogram with a border, or a second line of smaller type under the names, is easier to read at 2.25 inch. The 3 inch is the one to pick when the artwork carries a photograph or a detailed crest, or when the button is meant to be read across a room rather than held in the hand.

Two neighbours sitting at the same remove

The two closest places we also cover are, oddly, at identical distances. Shirley is 2.8 miles from Mastic Beach and Moriches is 2.8 miles from it as well, in different directions. Center Moriches is 3.3 miles out and East Moriches is 5.2 miles.

That symmetry is worth knowing when the people involved in one event are spread across those addresses, which on a wedding is normal rather than a complication. The bride's mother hosting the shower, the planner co-ordinating it and the couple themselves can easily be at three of those four addresses. For a button order none of that touches the price. Shipping is a flat tier set by the number of buttons, so the choice of destination among those addresses is a convenience question and nothing more.

The distance on the map

Mastic Beach is 30.4 miles east of the shop, measured as a straight line. That is the only geography figure on this page, and it is here because people ask, not because it changes anything about an order.

Counting favours against a guest list

Favour counts almost never land on a round number. You start from a guest list, add a few for the wedding party, add a few more for people who will want one and are not on the list, and you finish somewhere awkward. That is fine, because the per button price does not care what the number is.

One thing does care. The flat shipping tiers step at 100, 250, 500 and 1000 total buttons, and a count sitting just over a step is the only place in this exercise where a single button costs real money.

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

Here is the worked case. Take 101 of the 1.5 inch button at $1.51 each, the 100 to 249 rate for that size. The buttons come to $152.51. At 101 buttons the order has crossed into the up to 250 tier, so shipping is $14.99 and the order is $167.50 before tax. Order 100 instead of 101 and the same order stays in the up to 100 tier at $9.99, saving $5.00 on postage. Crossing 100 of a size takes 20 percent off every one of them, not just the hundredth. Nothing about the rate improved, the box simply got cheaper to send.

The same logic sits at every other step. If a Mastic Beach order is heading for 260, look hard at whether 250 will do. If it is heading for 105, look at 100. If it is heading for 140, ignore all of this, because you are nowhere near a boundary and the extra forty buttons cost exactly forty times $1.89.

Who these orders tend to come from

A wedding planner handling several events at once usually wants the sizes fixed early and the counts left open, because the counts are the part still moving. The rate table is what makes that possible. Quote the client $1.89 a favour at the 1.5 inch if the number lands at 80, and $1.42 if it lands at 380.

A parent hosting a bridal shower is generally working to a smaller count and a firmer guest list. This is the one case where the 100 boundary is worth checking twice, since shower counts often land in the eighties and nineties and a late addition of two or three can push the order over.

A couple doing their own favours without a planner tend to arrive with artwork already drawn, usually a monogram or a pair of names with a date. Read that artwork at the size you are actually buying before you commit to the 1.5 inch. A design that looks generous on a screen is a good deal smaller once it is a button on a lapel.

A venue co-ordinator ordering on behalf of a client mostly cares about the arithmetic being defensible. The two numbers to hand over are the per button rate for the chosen size and the shipping tier for the total count. There is no third number hiding anywhere.

Questions people ask before ordering

Our Mastic Beach guest count keeps changing. Does the price per button go down if it goes up?

No. The break applies to the whole run of that size, not only the buttons above the line. You do not have to ask for the discount, because the count applies it. Two figures move as the count grows: the rate band for each size, and the shipping tier for the order as a whole.

Our Mastic Beach favour order came to exactly 101 buttons. Is that a bad number to sit on?

In one narrow way, yes. At 101 the order crosses into the up to 250 shipping tier at $14.99, where 100 would have stayed in the up to 100 tier at $9.99. On 101 of the 1.5 inch button that is $152.51 of buttons plus $14.99 of shipping, $167.50 before tax. Dropping to 100 saves $5.00 on postage and $1.51 on the button you did not order.

The planner is in Moriches and the couple live in Mastic Beach. Does it matter which of the two the order is sent to?

Not to the price. Shipping is a flat tier decided by the total number of buttons, not by the destination, and both of those addresses are ones we cover. Choose on practical grounds, such as who is on hand to take delivery of a box.

Can we switch a Mastic Beach order from the 1.5 inch to the 2.25 inch after we have already priced it out?

Yes, and the effect is easy to predict. The per button rate moves from $1.49 to $1.99, so the change costs ten cents per button. The shipping tier does not move at all, because the tiers count buttons rather than sizes. A 200 button order is in the up to 250 tier at either size.

What happens to shipping if a Mastic Beach order goes above 250 buttons?

It steps to the next flat tier. Up to 250 buttons is $14.99, up to 500 is $19.99, and up to 1000 is $24.99. There are two ladders in play, one on the rate for each size and one on shipping for the whole order.