Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Old Bethpage, New York

An order for Old Bethpage is identified by the street address you type into the form, because this Nassau County community has no postal code of its own on file with us. That is not a problem to solve so much as a detail to get right once. House number, street, town, state: those five pieces carry the order, and the carrier reads the street line first anyway. Everything else on this page assumes that box is filled in correctly and moves on to the parts people actually ask about, which are sizes, price per button, artwork and what the shipping line adds to the bottom of the order.

Addressing an order when the postal code is borrowed

Plenty of communities in the county sit inside a postal code assigned to a neighbour, and a lookup tool will hand you a number that belongs to the next town over. Use whatever number your own mail uses. It will not conflict with anything on our side, because the town field and the street line are what we key the order to. If the number you are given looks like it belongs somewhere else, that is normal and it does not mean the order has gone astray. What matters far more is the suite, floor or department on a workplace delivery, since a building with a shared lobby will bounce a box around internally if there is nobody named on it.

One practical habit: put a person's name on the order, not just a department. "Wellness Committee" is a fine thing to write on the second address line, but the first line should be someone who will recognise the box.

Five sizes, and where each one steps down

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. The 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69 are the two smallest, and the ones that keep a big count affordable.

Crossing 100 of a size takes 20 percent off every one of them, not just the hundredth. Ten is charged at the listed rate. A thousand of one size is the point where a person quotes it instead. The ladder is published rather than negotiated, so there is nothing to ask for: your count applies it. Multiply the size price by the count and you have the cost of the buttons.

The 2.25 inch is the size most workplace runs land on. It gives a readable word or short phrase at arm's length without dominating a shirt or a lanyard. The 1.5 inch suits a symbol or a ribbon with no text. The 3 inch is for something that needs to be read across a room, like a table display or a badge worn at a sign-in desk.

A five hundred button run, costed out

Say a workplace is putting an awareness month on the calendar and wants a button for everyone on site, with a margin left over for people who join late or lose theirs. Five hundred of the 2.25 inch button at $1.39 each, 30 percent below the listed rate, is $695.00 in buttons. Flat shipping on an order of that size is $19.99, so the order comes to $714.99 before tax.

Worth noticing: 500 is the last quantity inside its shipping tier. One more button pushes the order into the next tier and the shipping line goes from $19.99 to $24.99. The button itself drops to $1.39 at 500, where 499 pays $1.49, so crossing the line takes ten cents off every button and adds five dollars to the shipping line. If you are sitting at 505 or 510, it is worth asking whether the run really needs those last few.

The shipping tiers, counted by total buttons on the order, are $9.99 up to 100, $14.99 up to 250, $19.99 up to 500 and $24.99 up to 1000.

Where this sits relative to us

The town is 9.1 miles south of the shop in a straight line. Several places we also cover sit closer to it than that: Farmingdale at 1.8 miles, Bethpage at 1.8 miles, Plainview at 2.0 miles, East Farmingdale at 2.6 miles and Plainedge at 2.7 miles. Those are straight line figures, not routes.

The practical use of that list is for workplaces with more than one site, or for an organiser who lives in one of those communities and works in another. The order does not care. It goes to the address on the form.

Artwork for a full colour run

Buttons are printed in full colour from artwork you upload. For an awareness month, the artwork is usually a ribbon, a short phrase, a date range or a department name, sometimes all four. A few things that make the difference between a button that reads and one that does not:

Keep the important part away from the edge. The printed sheet wraps around the curve of the shell, so anything sitting right at the boundary of your square will bend out of sight. Leave a margin of clear space on all sides and let the background colour run to the edge.

Contrast beats detail. A ribbon in a light colour on a light background disappears at 1.5 inches. Pick a background that pushes the symbol forward.

Text should be short. One line, two at most, at the 2.25 inch size. If you find yourself shrinking type to fit, the 3 inch is the better answer.

If the workplace has a brand colour that the awareness ribbon has to sit next to, send the artwork with both already placed the way you want them. That removes any guessing about which one wins.

Who tends to place this order

If you are the person who volunteered to run the campaign on top of your actual job, the published per button rate is the part that saves you time. You do not need a quote, a threshold or a negotiation. You need a count and a size, and you can write the number into your request before you open the order form.

If you are approving the spend rather than placing it, the useful figure is the one above: a full five hundred button run at the middle size comes in just over a thousand dollars with shipping included. That is a whole number you can carry into a budget line without a footnote.

If you are ordering for a site with a shared loading dock or a reception desk that handles several companies, spend the extra thirty seconds on the address line. A named recipient and a suite number do more for a workplace delivery than anything else you can type.

If you are repeating a run you did last year, keep the same artwork file if it worked. A repeat order of the same size and the same count lands in the same band, because the bands are published and fixed.

Questions people ask before ordering

Does the lack of a ZIP code for Old Bethpage mean my order needs special handling? No. The street address, town and state identify it. Enter the postal code your own mail already uses and place the order normally.

Is the price per button higher for delivery to Old Bethpage than to a larger town? It does. Yes for one size at a time. A hundred of a size earns 20 percent; a hundred buttons spread across several sizes earns nothing. 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.

We need 500 awareness buttons for an Old Bethpage workplace. What is the total? Five hundred at the 2.25 inch size is $695.00 in buttons, plus $19.99 shipping, for $714.99 before tax.

Our office sits between Old Bethpage and Farmingdale. Which town should go on the order? Use whichever one appears on your building's own mail. The street line is what routes the box, so either will arrive.

If our Old Bethpage committee splits one campaign into two separate orders, what changes? The per button price stays the same on both. Each order carries its own shipping tier based on its own button count, so two smaller orders pay two shipping lines instead of one.