Custom Pin-Back Buttons for North Lindenhurst, NY

The first thing to get right on an order for North Lindenhurst is the town line in the address field, because the short form of that name points at a different place on the map. Pair the full town name with ZIP 11757 and there is nothing left for anyone to interpret. Everything below assumes an order placed from this corner of the Town of Babylon, in Suffolk County, New York. It covers the five sizes, the printed rate ladder, the shipping tiers, and the one quantity trap that catches people buying for a workplace.

Why the full town name belongs on the order

This town shares a name root with Lindenhurst, which sits about 1.5 miles away and is a place we cover as well. That makes a shortened town line genuinely ambiguous rather than merely untidy. Somebody reading the order has to decide which of the two you meant, and the only honest way to decide is to ask. Typing the full name removes the question entirely. The same goes for the ZIP: 11757 on the line below the street is the second half of the same insurance. None of this changes anything about the buttons themselves. It just means the order matches the address you actually wanted it matched to, which is worth the extra word.

Five sizes, each with its own rate ladder

There are five round pin-back buttons 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. All five are full colour, printed from artwork you upload. The range starts at the 1 inch for $1.49, with the 1.25 inch at $1.69.

Read those prices literally. The discount is worked out per size and applied automatically. Ten of the 2.25 inch cost $1.99 each and four hundred of the 2.25 inch cost $1.49 each. You no longer have to guess where the break sits, which means you can order your real number and then look up whether a few more would cost less. If you have a real number of people to cover, order that number. There are two ladders in play, one on the rate for each size and one on shipping for the whole order.

Where the shipping steps fall

Shipping is a flat fee set by the total number of buttons on the order. Up to 100 buttons it is $9.99. Up to 250 it is $14.99. Up to 500 it is $19.99. Up to 1000 it is $24.99.

Because the steps are hard edges, a count sitting just past one costs more than a count sitting just under it. Take a realistic example: 101 of the 3 inch button at $1.99 each, 20 percent under the 1 to 99 figure, is $200.99 in buttons. That order has 101 buttons on it, so it falls into the $14.99 tier, and the total is $215.98 before tax. Order 100 instead and the same order sits in the $9.99 tier, saving $5.00 on postage. The buttons themselves still cost $2.49 each either way. So it is worth looking at your count once, purely to see whether it is loitering one or two units above 100, 250 or 500. If it is, either trim to the round number or add enough that the extra buttons are actually useful to you, since you are paying the higher postage regardless.

The distance figure, and what it is good for

This town is 12.1 miles south of the shop as a straight line on a map. That is not a route and it is not a measure of anything but geography. Its practical use is telling you which other pages on this site apply to you. North Amityville is about 1.6 miles off, West Babylon about 1.7, Copiague about 2.4, and East Farmingdale about 2.6. If your workplace draws staff from more than one of those, or if the billing address and the delivery address disagree, the numbers on the order do not change: sizes and per button prices are identical everywhere, and postage is set by button count alone.

Awareness month orders, from the organiser's side

The most common version of this order is a workplace marking an awareness month. Somebody on a committee is asked to put a visible thing in people's hands, given a budget that was decided before anyone priced buttons, and left to work out the count.

A few things make that easier. Settle the count from a headcount, not a guess, and remember that the per button rate you can look up means an accurate count is never punished. Decide whether one design covers everyone or whether you want a second design for the people running it, because two designs on one order still share a single shipping fee based on the combined button count. And if the budget is a hard ceiling, work the shipping tier into your arithmetic from the start rather than discovering it at checkout.

Making the artwork read at the size you chose

A 1.5 inch button is a small canvas. Fine detail and long strings of text tend to disappear on it, so the 1.5 inch works best with a single symbol, a short word, or a ribbon shape and nothing else. The 2.25 inch gives room for a symbol plus a few words. The 3 inch will carry a line of body text, a logo and a symbol together, which is why it is the usual pick when a button has to explain itself rather than just signal something. Also allow for the curve: the printed sheet wraps around the edge of the button, so anything pushed right up against the border of your artwork ends up on the side rather than the face. Keep important elements away from the rim.

Four ways this usually gets ordered

The committee chair. You have a headcount and a budget and you want one number. Pick the size, multiply by the count, add the shipping tier for that count, and that is the number. Nothing else is added except tax.

The department lead ordering a second design. You want a plain version for staff and a distinct one for the people running the table. Both designs can sit on one order. Each button is priced by its own size, and the shipping fee is worked out from the two counts added together, not charged twice.

The person placing the order who did not make the artwork. Somebody handed you a file and left. Check it against the size first: if it is dense and you were planning on 1.5 inch, either simplify it or move up to 2.25 inch or 3 inch rather than shrinking it and hoping.

The person who has to approve the spend. You want no surprises between the quote and the invoice. There are exactly three numbers: per button price by size, button count, and one flat shipping fee. There is no rate that changes with volume in either direction, so a quote built from those three holds.

Questions people ask before ordering

Should I write out the full town name on a North Lindenhurst order? Yes. Write North Lindenhurst rather than the short form, and include ZIP 11757. The short form belongs to a neighbouring place we also cover, so the full name is what keeps the two apart.

We are in North Lindenhurst and want 101 of the 3 inch button. What does that come to? 101 at $1.99 each, 20 percent under the 1 to 99 figure, is $200.99 in buttons. At 101 buttons the order sits in the $14.99 shipping tier, so the total is $215.98 before tax.

If our North Lindenhurst office orders a larger run, does the price per button drop? Yes. A hundred of one size is the first point it changes, and it changes again at 250 and 500. The per button price is the same up to ninety-nine of that size. Nothing here is negotiated: the band your count lands in sets the rate. Only the flat shipping fee changes with count.

Can a North Lindenhurst awareness month order mix two sizes on one order? Yes. Each size is charged at its own rate, chosen by how many of it you order, $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 or $2.49 per button, and the shipping fee is based on the total number of buttons across the whole order.

How far is North Lindenhurst from the shop? 12.1 miles, measured as a straight line on a map, in a southerly direction.