Custom Pin-Back Buttons for North Massapequa, New York

CUSTOM PIN-BACK BUTTONS ORDERED BY THE STREET LINE

An order for North Massapequa is routed by its street address rather than by a postal code, because there is no ZIP of its own on file for it. That sounds like a small administrative detail, and usually it is, but it puts the weight on the one field people fill in fastest. House number, street, unit or apartment if there is one, then the state. Get that line right and the rest of the order behaves. Most of what gets ordered for an address like this is party favour work: a birthday, an anniversary, a batch of the same round button with one face or one date on it, sitting one to a seat.

THE ADDRESS LINE CARRIES THE WHOLE RECORD

When a place has no postal code assigned to it directly, the street line is not just the most useful part of the address, it is effectively the only part that narrows anything down. So write it out the way it appears on your mail. Spell the street type rather than abbreviating it if you are unsure, keep the directional if your street has one, and put the apartment, suite or unit in its own field instead of tacking it onto the end of the street. If a form asks for a postal code and you do not have one for North Massapequa, use the code that already appears on mail delivered to that door. The street line is what gets read.

One more thing worth doing before you submit: put a phone number on the order even though nothing forces you to. If anything about the address needs a second look, that number is how it gets sorted out in one step instead of three.

FIVE SIZES, AND WHAT EACH ONE COSTS

There are five round pin-back buttons 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

The per button figure drops 20 percent at 100 of a size and keeps dropping at 250 and 500. Up to 99 of one size there is no discount, and from 100 of it there is. Order what the list needs, then look at the band boundaries once. They are the only place where ordering more costs less.

The sizes read differently in the hand. The 1.5 inch holds a symbol, a monogram, a single number. The 2.25 inch is the common favour size and takes a name and a date without crowding. The 3 inch carries a photograph and is the one people pick when a face has to be recognisable from across a room.

A WORKED ORDER, START TO FINISH

Say you want forty of the 3 inch button for a party. Forty at $2.49 each is $99.60 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order that size is $9.99, which brings the order to $109.59 before tax. Nothing else is added to that.

Two things are worth noticing in those numbers. The first is that the button price did not move because you ordered forty rather than four. The second is that forty buttons sits a long way under the first shipping ceiling, and the next paragraph is about what that means.

WHERE YOUR QUANTITY SITS IN THE SHIPPING TIERS

Shipping is a flat charge decided by 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

Because the tiers are flat, the shipping cost of an order is identical anywhere inside a band. An order of forty and an order of ninety five pay the same $9.99. An order of one hundred and five and an order of two hundred and fifty pay the same $14.99. So if your count has landed just over a line, look at it once. If you were at one hundred and five and you have any reason at all to want more buttons, the next hundred and forty five of them ride on shipping you have already paid for. The per button price stays exactly where it was either way.

HOW FAR SOUTH THIS IS

North Massapequa sits 13.1 miles south of the shop in a straight line. Nearby places covered on this site include South Farmingdale at 1.7 miles, Plainedge at 1.7 miles and North Wantagh at 2.1 miles, all measured the same straight line way. Those figures are geometry and nothing else. They are here because people ask, and because the distance is one of the few facts about this page that is genuinely specific to it.

THE ARTWORK SIDE

Buttons are printed full colour from artwork you upload. The face is round and the printed sheet wraps over the edge of the shell before it is crimped at the back, so the outer rim of your image curves away from the viewer. Keep anything that has to stay readable, names, dates, a year, a small logo, inside the middle of the circle and leave the outer band to background colour or pattern. A photograph wants a little room around the subject for the same reason.

You can put more than one design on a single order. Mixing designs does not change the price per button and does not change how the shipping tier is worked out, since the tier counts buttons rather than designs.

FOUR PEOPLE ORDERING THE SAME BUTTON FOR DIFFERENT REASONS

The parent running a milestone birthday. You have a headcount from the invite list and you want one button per child with the birthday number on it. Order to the headcount plus a handful, since siblings turn up.

The couple marking an anniversary. Two portraits, then and now, on a 3 inch face so both are legible when a guest looks down at a place setting. One design, one count, done.

The professional planner handling several events at once. You are used to price sheets with a break at fifty and another at two hundred and fifty. There is none here. Quote your client the published rate and the shipping tier their count falls into, and the quote stands.

The person assembling favour bags at a kitchen table. You are buying buttons to go in alongside other things, so the count is driven by the bag count. Watch the tier line, not the per button price, because that is the only number that jumps.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

There is no ZIP code shown for North Massapequa, so what do I enter? Use the postal code that appears on mail already delivered to that address, and make sure the street line, number and unit are exact. The street line is what the order is worked from.

If I want 40 of the 3 inch buttons for a party in North Massapequa, what is the total? $99.60 for the buttons at $2.49 each, plus $9.99 flat shipping, which is $109.59 before tax.

Does ordering a larger quantity for a North Massapequa party bring the price per button down? It does. Different designs of the same size add together for the discount. Different sizes never do. The published bands are 1 to 99, 100 to 249, 250 to 499 and 500 to 999, per size. The count moves two numbers, the rate band for that size and the shipping tier for the order.

Can one North Massapequa order mix all five sizes? Yes. Each size is charged at its own rate, on its own count, and the shipping tier is set by the total number of buttons across the whole order.

My North Massapequa count came out at 108 buttons, should I change it? You are in the $14.99 tier, which runs to 250 buttons. If there is any reason to want more, you can add up to 250 without the shipping charge moving. If not, leave it. Combine designs at one size and the combined count is what sets the rate.