Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Rockville Centre, New York

An order headed for Rockville Centre is identified on our side by two fields, the ZIP code 11570 and the Nassau County line it sits inside, and those two fields are what route it once it is placed. The town name typed into the form is useful to a human reading the order, but the ZIP and the county are what the order is actually filed under. This page is written for someone placing that order: the numbers you would be charged and the choices you would have to make.

Getting the 11570 line right

A single ZIP covers this order, so there is no ambiguity about which code to use. What does cause trouble is everything after the street line. If the buttons are going to a school building, a field house, a clubhouse or a team parent's workplace rather than a house, put the building name or the suite on its own line and put a recipient name above it. A box addressed only to an organisation, with no person named, can sit unclaimed at a front desk.

The other common snag is a billing address that does not match the shipping address. That is normal for team orders, since one parent often pays and the box goes somewhere else. It does not block anything, but it is worth checking that both addresses were entered the way you meant them, because the shipping address is the one we work from and the billing address is the one your card issuer checks.

Two neighbours sitting at exactly the same number

There is a genuine oddity in this part of Nassau County. Lakeview sits 1.4 miles from Rockville Centre. Lynbrook also sits 1.4 miles away. Not roughly the same, the same number. East Rockaway is 1.5 miles, Oceanside is 1.7 miles, and Hempstead is 1.8 miles. Six places we cover, all inside a two mile spread, which means a cluster of orders from one league or one school district can come in looking nearly identical to each other.

This matters practically rather than geographically. If your team draws families from more than one of those places, and two people order buttons for the same squad from two different addresses, the orders arrive here as two unrelated jobs. There is nothing wrong with that, but they will be charged separate shipping and handled separately. If you want them treated as one job, they need to be one order going to one address. More on what that does to the cost below.

The straight line from Huntington

Rockville Centre sits 20.3 miles south west of the shop, measured as a straight line on the map rather than as a route. It is worth knowing only because people ask how far away they are ordering from. Nothing about the order changes because of it, since the shipping charge is set by how many buttons you are buying and not by how many miles the box covers.

What the buttons cost

There are five sizes and nothing else. A 1.5 inch button is $1.89 each. A 2.25 inch button is $1.99 each. A 3 inch button is $2.49 each. From 500 to 999 of a size the rate is 30 percent under the listed one. Every button of one size costs the same as every other on that order, and a large order sits in a lower band than a small one. For the lowest per button figure, the 1 inch is $1.49 and the 1.25 inch is $1.69.

Here is a real order. Seventy five of the 2.25 inch button, at $1.99 each, is $149.25 in buttons. Shipping on an order that size is $9.99. The order comes to $159.24 before tax.

Shipping is a flat charge set 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

Seventy five sits inside the first tier with room to spare, which is the useful thing about that quantity. You could add twenty five more buttons and still pay $9.99 to ship them. The twenty sixth extra button is the one that pushes the order into the $14.99 tier. If you are hovering anywhere near a hundred, it is worth counting the roster twice before you check out, because the count is what decides which tier you land in.

Picking a size

The 1.5 inch button is the one that punishes a busy design. Anything with a long name, a date and a logo stacked together will be hard to read at that size. The 2.25 inch is the size most team orders settle on, because a name and a number or a mascot and a year both fit without crowding. The 3 inch is the one to pick when the design is really a small poster: a photo, a full team name, several lines of text.

All five are full colour and printed from the artwork you upload. The practical advice is to keep the important elements away from the outer edge, because the button wraps around a curve and the outermost ring of your artwork bends out of sight at the rim. Anything you need read straight on, a number or a name, belongs in the middle rather than tight against the border.

Who tends to place these orders

The team parent handling one squad. Twenty players, a button for each family, one design with the team name and the year. This is the order the seventy five button example was built around, and it usually lands under a hundred buttons with the roster, the coaches and a few spares included.

The parent who wants a button per player rather than per team. Same base design, a different name and number on each one. The per button price does not change when the artwork does, so a run of individually named buttons costs the same as a run of identical ones at that size.

The person ordering for two teams at once. A junior squad and a senior squad, two designs, one box. Worth doing as a single order, because the shipping tier counts the total buttons rather than the number of designs on the order.

The parent who ordered once and is reordering. Keep the artwork file you uploaded the first time, and the price per button on the repeat will be exactly what it was before.

Questions people actually ask

Does a Rockville Centre order need anything on the address line beyond the street and ZIP? Only if the box is going somewhere other than a house. For a school, a field house or a workplace, add a named recipient and the building or suite on its own line. For a residential address, the street and 11570 are enough.

My card bills to a different address than the Rockville Centre address the buttons are going to. Is that a problem? No. The shipping address is what we send to and the billing address is what your card issuer verifies, and they are allowed to differ. Just check both were entered as you intended.

If I order 75 buttons for a Rockville Centre team, does the price per button drop if I go up to 150? Yes, and the saving applies to the whole run of that size. 75 of one size pays the listed rate and 150 of it pays 20 percent under the listed rate. Those counts sit in different bands: 75 at the listed rate, 150 at 20 percent under the listed rate. The per button rate is a per size question and the shipping tier is a whole order question.

Two of us are ordering for the same Rockville Centre team. Should we combine into one order? If the buttons can go to one address, yes, because one order pays one shipping charge while two orders each pay their own. Two runs of 75 would sit in the $9.99 tier separately, while a single order of 150 sits in the $14.99 tier. 1,000 of a single size is quoted by a person rather than priced automatically.

Which size should a Rockville Centre team pick for a design with a player name and number on it? The 2.25 inch at $1.99 handles a name and a number comfortably. Go to the 3 inch at $2.49 if you are also adding a photo, a full team name or a third line of text. The 1.5 inch is better kept for a simple mark such as a logo or a single number on its own.