Custom Pin-Back Buttons for New Cassel, New York

Reading the ZIP before the name

An order bound for New Cassel is identified on our end by two things together: the ZIP typed on the address line, 11590, and whatever town name the buyer puts in the town field above it. Both halves ride along with the order, and both are printed on the label, so an order that says one name and an order that says another sit side by side in the same queue with the same ZIP under them. This is worth saying plainly at the top of the page, because around here the address line carries a little more weight than it does elsewhere in Nassau County, and people ordering merch for the first time tend to worry about it.

We treat 11590 as the anchor. The town field is useful, it tells us how the buyer thinks of where they live, and we keep it exactly as typed on the label, but the ZIP is what actually gets the box moving. So there is nothing to fix and nothing to call about if the name on your order is not the name you expected to see in a dropdown. Type the address the way you would write it on an envelope, leave the ZIP as 11590, and the order is routed.

The practical version of that advice: put the full street address in first, check the ZIP, and do not spend time second guessing the town line. If a delivery address and a billing address disagree on the town name but agree on the ZIP, that is not an error and it will not hold anything up.

A tight cluster of neighbours

The thing that shapes this page is how close everything else is to New Cassel. Westbury sits 1.4 miles out. Hicksville is 1.8 miles. Jericho is 2.1 miles. Carle Place and Old Westbury are both 2.7 miles. Five places we also cover, all inside two and three quarter miles, which is a genuinely small radius for five separate names on a map.

For a band that is a useful fact. Members rarely all live at the same address, and a drummer two towns over is, in this case, a couple of miles away. One order, one delivery address, one box, and the rest is a handoff at practice rather than five separate shipments to five separate doors. Pick whichever address someone is actually going to be at when the box lands and use that one.

For the record, New Cassel sits 12.1 miles south west of us, measured straight line and not by road. That is the only such figure on this page and it is here so you know the scale, not so you can plan a route.

Five sizes, and what each costs

Five round pin-back sizes, and nothing else:

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

There is a discount at 100 of a size, a better one at 250 and the best online one at 500. Ten pays the listed rate. A thousand of one size is past the ceiling, so that one is quoted rather than priced automatically. Three quantities change the number, and they are 100, 250 and 500 of a single size. If you want to know what a run costs, multiply the size price by the count and you have it, with no table to consult.

The 1.5 inch is the classic merch table button, the one people pin to a bag strap and forget about. The 2.25 inch is the one most acts land on, because a logo and a name both fit at a size a person can read from across a table. The 3 inch is where photographs and detailed artwork stop fighting for room.

A worked run of 400

Here is a real calculation rather than a range. Four hundred of the 2.25 inch button at $1.49 each, the rate that applies from 250 of one size, is $596.00 in buttons. Shipping on an order that size is a flat $19.99. The order comes to $615.99 before tax.

Nothing in that figure is negotiable by ordering differently. The $596.00 is just the multiplication. The $19.99 is the shipping tier the order lands in. Splitting a run across designs is free as long as the designs are the same size. Designs are not what the price is counting.

Where the shipping tiers actually change

Shipping is flat by total buttons on the order, not by weight and not by size:

• 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 tier is the only thing about an order that behaves in steps, and it is worth a minute of attention if your number is sitting just past a boundary. An order of 260 pays the same $19.99 as an order of 500. Per button, 500 is now cheaper than 260: 260 of one size earns 25 percent off and 500 of it earns 30 percent, and the shipping line is the same $19.99 for both. If you were already unsure whether 260 was enough for the run of shows you have booked, that is the one place where the arithmetic gives you a nudge.

The same shape repeats at the other boundaries. Just over 100, just over 250, just over 500: those are the four points where a handful of extra buttons changes the shipping line and nothing else.

Four people this page is written for

The solo act with one design. You play around New Cassel and you have a name and a logo and that is the whole merch line for now. One size, one design, a count you can carry in a bag. The published rate for each band means you can work out the cost of a run in your head before you commit to anything.

The four piece splitting the bill. Everyone puts in the same amount and everyone wants to know exactly what they are paying for. The math is public: count times price, plus one shipping tier. Send the group the multiplication and there is nothing left to argue about.

The person who ended up running the merch table. You are not in the band, you are the one who got handed the cash box. What you need is a number you can reconcile at the end of the night, and a per button cost that did not change halfway through the order.

The act with a new release. New artwork, and the old design is not dead yet, so you want both. Because the price per button does not care how many designs are in the order, you can carry two or three and only the total count matters, for the multiplication and for the shipping tier.

Questions we get asked

Does it matter whether I write New Cassel or a neighbouring town name on my order? No. The ZIP, 11590, is what we work from, and the town line is kept as you typed it. Either version reaches you.

My band is spread across New Cassel and the towns next to it. Should I place separate orders? There is no reason to. The five nearest places we cover are all inside 2.7 miles of you, so one order to one address and a handoff in person is simpler than several orders and several shipping charges.

What does 400 of the 2.25 inch button work out to for a New Cassel address? Buttons are $596.00, flat shipping at that quantity is $19.99, and the order total is $615.99 before tax.

If I raise my New Cassel order above 400, does the per button price come down? It does. 400 of one size earns 25 percent off, and it comes off every button of that size rather than only the ones above the line. The rate you pay depends on how many of that one size are on the order. A larger order costs more in total, never less per button.

I need about 260 buttons for a run of New Cassel shows. Is there anything to know about that number? Only that 260 and 500 sit in the same flat shipping tier at $19.99. The rate for a given size and count is fixed and public, so you are not saving money by going higher, but you are not paying more to ship either.