Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Middle Island, New York

An order for Middle Island is addressed and routed on a single ZIP code, 11953, and that one number carries the whole place. There is no second postal district to pick between and no ambiguity to resolve when a workplace name and a delivery address have to be matched to each other. You type 11953, and the destination is settled. Most of the confusion in an order placed from the eastern half of Suffolk County happens at exactly that step, so it is worth having out of the way first.

What we make is narrow on purpose. Round pin back buttons, in five sizes, printed in full colour from artwork you upload. Nothing else. The rest of this page is about how that one product tends to get ordered around here, and what a realistic order actually costs.

Neighbours packed into a very small radius

The unusual thing about this corner of the county is how tightly the surrounding communities cluster. Gordon Heights is 1.8 miles off. East Yaphank, Yaphank and Coram all sit at 3.3 miles. Ridge is 3.7 miles. Every one of those is a place we already cover, and all five of them fall inside 3.7 miles of Middle Island.

That matters in a practical way when the buttons are going to a workforce rather than a household. Staff at one employer rarely all live at the same address, and a roster pulled from a single workplace here will usually scatter across several of those names. An organiser trying to get a button into everyone's hands does not want to be placing six small orders to six addresses. One order to the workplace, handed out on site, and the geography does the rest.

Five sizes, counted separately for the discount

There are three:

The 1.5 inch, at $1.89 each

The 2.25 inch, at $1.99 each 3 inch, at $2.49 each

Nothing here is negotiated: the band your count lands in sets the rate. The per button figure drops 20 percent at 100 of a size and keeps dropping at 250 and 500. If you have to take a number to a committee and defend it, this is the easy part of the spreadsheet: pick a size, multiply by headcount, and that is the button line, exactly.

Size is a design decision rather than a budget one. The 1.5 inch is a lapel format, with room for a symbol and a short word or two. The 2.25 inch gives a noticeably larger printable face, which is where a logo and multi line text start to sit comfortably together. The 3 inch is the largest we make and the most visible across a room, which is why it tends to show up on tables rather than on lapels. There is also a 1 inch at $1.49 and a 1.25 inch at $1.69, which is where most large giveaway runs land.

The part that does change with quantity

Shipping is flat, charged in tiers against 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

The two things a bigger count changes are the band each size is priced in and the one shipping charge on the order.

Here is a real example. Take 101 of the 1.5 inch button at $1.51 each, which is the 100 to 249 rate. That is $152.51 in buttons. At 101 total buttons the order has crossed out of the first tier, so shipping is $14.99, and the order comes to $167.50 before tax. Order 100 instead of 101 and the shipping falls to $9.99, saving $5.00 on postage for one button fewer. Neither number is wrong. It is just worth knowing which side of the line you are standing on before you submit, because nothing else about the pricing will reward or punish you for the quantity you pick.

Distance, and the one decision it affects

Middle Island sits 23.8 miles east of the shop, measured straight line rather than by road. That figure is useful for exactly one thing: deciding whether anyone from your organisation is realistically going to collect the order in person instead of having it shipped. If collection is not on the table, the distance has no effect on anything, and the flat shipping tier above is the whole story. If somebody is already heading that way, it is a number worth having.

Artwork for an awareness month run

Awareness campaigns are the most common reason a workplace orders buttons at all, and they have a particular shape. The design is usually settled before anyone thinks about buttons: a ribbon in a specific colour, the cause name, sometimes the employer logo, sometimes a hashtag or a date range. You upload that artwork and we print it in full colour.

Two things are worth checking on your side. First, whether the ribbon colour is the exact one the campaign uses, because a near miss reads as a near miss. Second, whether the text fits the size you picked. A logo plus a cause name plus a date is a lot to ask of a 1.5 inch face, and that is better solved by moving up to the 2.25 inch than by shrinking type.

Who these tend to go to

If you are the committee organiser who volunteered to handle this and now owns it, your job is mostly counting. Headcount, plus contractors, plus the people who will ask for one after they see somebody else wearing it. Decide your spare margin before you look at the tier table, not after.

If you are in HR or internal communications and the order has to cover more than one shift, count every shift as a full population. A button left in a drawer for the night crew does not get worn, and the price per button is the same whether you order for one shift or all of them.

If you are staffing a table at an employee event, the 3 inch is the one that works as a handout on a surface rather than as something pinned to a jacket. Order that size for the table and a smaller size for the staff running it.

If you are a team lead buying for one department out of your own budget, you are almost certainly in the first shipping tier, which means keeping your total at 100 or under is the single decision that matters financially.

Questions people actually ask

We are ordering awareness month buttons for a workplace in Middle Island. Does the price per button drop if we order more? Yes, and the saving applies to the whole run of that size. The first break is at 100 of a single size and takes 20 percent off every one of them, and there are two more at 250 and 500. Those two counts are priced differently now: one at the listed rate, and twelve hundred of a single size at a quote rather than an automatic figure. The rate is counted inside a single size and the shipping tier is counted across all of them.

Our staff come in from Coram and Ridge as well as Middle Island. Can one order cover everybody? Yes, and it is usually the sensible approach. Put the whole headcount on one order shipped to the workplace and hand them out on site. Shipping is charged once, on the total button count, rather than per person or per address.

We need 101 buttons for our Middle Island office. Is there a reason to order 100 instead? There is one. Up to 99 of one size there is no discount, and from 100 of it there is. Dropping one button saves $5.00 in postage. If you genuinely need 101, order 101, but make that choice knowingly.

Which size should we pick for staff at our Middle Island site to wear during the campaign? Most workplace wear ends up on the 1.5 inch or the 2.25 inch. Choose between them by how much has to fit on the face: a symbol and a couple of words go on the smaller one, while a logo alongside a cause name is far easier to lay out on the 2.25 inch.

Can we place a second Middle Island order later in the month for people we missed, and how is shipping charged on it? You can. Each order is priced on its own, so the second one gets its own flat shipping tier based on its own button count, and the per button price is identical to the first order.