Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Roosevelt, New York

Will a button order still find me if my town has no ZIP code of its own on file? Yes. That is the first thing worth clearing up, because Roosevelt is one of the places in our records that carries no postal code of its own, and people notice it the moment they start filling in a shipping form. The order travels on the street address you enter, line by line, exactly as you would write it on an envelope. The place name is a label on top of that address, not the thing that moves the parcel.

When the place name and the postal record disagree

A postal code is a sorting shortcut. It is not the address, and it is not what makes an address valid. Plenty of communities across Nassau County sit inside a postal code assigned to a neighbouring name, and the carrier network handles that without comment. What it needs is a building number, a street, a state, and whatever postal code the carrier itself assigns to that street.

So when you reach the shipping fields, enter the street address as you normally write it. If an autocomplete suggestion offers a different town name attached to your street, take it. That is the postal record talking, and matching it makes the label cleaner. Nothing about your order changes because of it: not the price of the buttons, not the shipping charge, not the sizes available to you.

The five sizes and what each one costs

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. Full colour, printed from artwork you upload. Two smaller options exist as well, the 1 inch for $1.49 and the 1.25 inch for $1.69.

Those arepublished per button rate. One pays the listed rate. A thousand of one size is past the ceiling, so that one is quoted rather than priced automatically. A bigger total does not help on its own. It is a bigger count of one size that moves a rate, which is why mixing sizes to reach a number does nothing. This matters more than it sounds like it should, because it means you can order the number you actually need. If the honest answer is 60, order 60. Ordering 200 to chase a discount that does not exist just leaves you with 140 buttons in a box.

100, 250 and 500 appear in both ladders, which is a coincidence worth knowing rather than a rule.

A 75 button order, priced out

Take a common order: 75 of the 3 inch button, the size people reach for when the artwork has a logo, a line of text and a booth number all fighting for the same circle.

75 buttons at $2.49 each is $186.75 in buttons. An order of that size falls in the first flat shipping tier at $9.99. The total before tax is $196.74.

Now look at what happens if the number grows. The first shipping tier covers you up to 100 buttons, so 75 and 100 carry the same $9.99 charge. Cross 100 and you are in the next tier at $14.99. That is worth knowing if your count is sitting at 102 or 105, because trimming back under 100 saves five dollars of shipping. The rate for each size and the one shipping charge are the two figures a bigger count touches.

Shipping is counted in buttons, not in miles

The shipping tiers go by the total number of buttons on the order, nothing else:

up to 100 buttons, $9.99 up to 250 buttons, $14.99 up to 500 buttons, $19.99 up to 1000 buttons, $24.99

Distance does not enter into it. Two addresses far apart pay the identical flat charge for the identical button count. Mixed size orders are counted the same way: add up every button on the order, whichever of the five sizes they are, and that total picks the tier.

Seventeen miles and a handful of neighbours

Roosevelt sits 17.2 miles south west of the shop in a straight line, inside Nassau County. That figure is a map measurement and nothing more, since it has no effect on what you pay.

It is useful as orientation, because we cover the ground around you too. North Merrick is 1.4 miles away, and so is Freeport. Hempstead is 1.8 miles, South Hempstead 1.9 miles, and Merrick 2.5 miles. If your billing address sits in one of them and your shipping address in another, there is nothing to sort out. Same catalogue, same five sizes, same published rate for each band.

Artwork for a table of handouts

Buttons that live on a handout table are read from about three feet away by someone walking past. That is a different job from a button worn on a jacket, and it changes what belongs in the circle.

On the 3 inch face you have room for a mark and a short line of words. On the 2.25 inch, a mark and a couple of words. On the 1.5 inch, one idea, large. The commonest mistake is the 1.5 inch button carrying a logo, a tagline, a website and a booth number, all of it legible on screen at 400 percent zoom and none of it legible in a bowl.

Keep important content away from the outer edge, since the printed circle wraps around the rim of the shell and the last sliver of the design curves out of sight. Flat colour and strong contrast read from further away than a photograph does. If you are ordering more than one design, make them visibly different at a glance, so someone choosing from a bowl can tell them apart without picking two up.

Four people who order this way

If you exhibit at trade shows and run one booth at a time, a single design in the 2.25 inch is usually the whole order. It is the size that takes a logo and a few words without crowding, and it pins to a lanyard or a jacket without being a statement.

If you share a table with partner organisations, order your own design separately rather than trying to combine several logos into one crowded circle. Separate designs in the same size look deliberate sitting side by side, and the printed rate ladder means splitting the order across designs costs nothing extra.

If you are sending a delegation from Roosevelt to a conference and want your people identifiable across a hall, the 3 inch is the one that reads at a distance. Count heads, add a margin for the ones that go missing in a hotel room, and order that number.

If you sell a range of products and want a button per product line, the 1.5 inch keeps a multi design set from taking over the table, and a customer can take two or three without it feeling like a commitment.

Questions we are asked

Your form will not accept a ZIP code for Roosevelt, what should I put? Enter the postal code the carrier assigns to your street. If an address lookup suggests one, use the suggestion. The parcel is routed on the street address, and the town name printed above it does not change anything about the order.

If I order 200 buttons to an address in Roosevelt, what does shipping come to? $14.99. That order sits in the second tier, which covers 101 through 250 buttons. The tier is set by the total button count on the order, not by which sizes you chose.

Does a larger order from Roosevelt get a lower price per button? It does, in three steps. The break is real and it is printed: 20 percent at 100 of a size, 25 at 250, 30 at 500. Four bands per size, with the boundaries at 100, 250, 500 and 1,000. Order exactly the number you need.

I run a trade show booth and ship to Roosevelt, which size should I order? For a handout bowl where people read at a few feet, the 3 inch. For something people will actually wear on a lanyard through the day, the 2.25 inch. If you want several designs out at once without dominating the table, the 1.5 inch.

Does the distance to Roosevelt add anything to my order? No. Shipping is a flat charge based on how many buttons are on the order, and the miles between us make no difference to it.