Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Glen Cove, New York

Somebody always ends up holding the list. If you organise things for a community group, you know the shape of it: a badge for every volunteer on the rota, a few spares for the people who turn up anyway, something for whoever is sitting at the sign in table, and a small giveaway for anyone who stops to ask what the group actually does. The design is usually agreed long before the head count is, because the head count depends on who says yes. Orders built like that come to us from Glen Cove often enough that it is worth setting out how they are priced, what the quantity bands do to the per piece figure, and the one small thing about addressing them that catches people out.

The address does the work here

We hold no ZIP code for this town in our records, so nothing on our side is keyed to one. In practice that changes very little for you. Enter the full street address at checkout, the house or building number, the street, and the state, and the order is identified by that address rather than by a postal code we would only be guessing at. If the parcel is going to a hall, a clubhouse, an office or a member's home, put the name of the person who will actually take receipt on it as well, because a group address with no name attached is the usual reason a package goes wandering between desks. If your group keeps a mailbox somewhere other than where it meets, use the mailbox address.

What a run of badges costs

Die-cut stickers are priced by the square inch, and the rate per square inch falls as the quantity rises. At 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents. From 25 to 49 it is 30 cents. From 50 to 99 it is 28 cents. From 100 to 249 it is 26 cents. From 250 to 499 it is 24 cents. At 500 it is 22 cents.

Take the size a community group most often lands on, a 3 by 3 inch badge. That is 9 square inches. At 500 pieces the rate is 22 cents per square inch, so each badge works out at $1.98 and the full 500 comes to $990.00. The same arithmetic runs at any size: multiply width by height for the square inches, find the band your quantity falls in, and multiply the two figures together. Because the rate is tied to the band and not to the design, a larger badge in a small quantity can easily cost more per piece than a smaller badge in a large one. If you are weighing 250 against 500, work both out on paper before you commit, since the per piece figure moves twice, once on the band and once on the area.

The ten piece line

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever you reach first. That is a qualifying line, not a price floor. A committee ordering a handful of large badges will clear it on value, while a group ordering small ones clears it on count. It exists so that a single test piece is not treated as a production run. If you are not sure which side of the line you fall on, add the items up in the cart and the total will tell you.

Drawing something that reads across a room

A badge is read at arm's length by somebody who is not looking very hard, so the group name wants to be the largest thing on it and everything else wants to be smaller than you think. Keep type and logo marks a little inside the edge of the shape rather than running them to the boundary, because the cut follows the outline of your artwork and anything sitting right on that outline has nowhere to go. Send the artwork at the size you want it made, so the square inch figure above matches what you are actually buying. Die cut means the shape is yours: a circle, a rounded rectangle, or the outline of the logo itself. If the logo has thin arms or a long tail, giving the shape a little margin all round cuts more cleanly than following every curve tightly.

How far west of us you are

Glen Cove is 12.4 miles west of the shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, measured straight line rather than by any route. It sits in Nassau County. Everything is printed and cut at that one address, and local pickup there is free if collecting suits you better than posting. We cover the places immediately around you as well: Sea Cliff at 1.3 miles, Glen Head at 1.5, Glenwood Landing at 2.5, Locust Valley at 3.2, and Port Washington at 3.8, all measured from you rather than from us. If your membership is drawn from more than one of those, the same rates apply across all of them, and we ship anywhere in the United States besides.

Four people who tend to place this order

The volunteer coordinator. You need one badge per name on the rota plus a margin for the people who simply appear. Order to the band above your firm count rather than below it, because the drop in rate at the higher band often makes the spares close to free.

The fundraising table. Your badges double as a giveaway, so the count matters more than the size. A smaller shape at a higher quantity will usually get you further across a long afternoon than a large one at a low quantity.

The youth programme. You are ordering for children, every one of whom will want their own, which points to a high count of a small, simple shape with strong flat colours and a name that reads at a glance.

The neighbourhood association. You order the same design year after year with a single line of text changed. Keep the artwork file you sent us and send that same file back with the new line edited in, rather than rebuilding it.

Questions we are asked

We do not have a ZIP code on file for our Glen Cove address. Will the order still reach us? Yes. The order is identified by the full street address, so enter the number, the street and the state exactly as you would write them on an envelope, together with the name of the person receiving it. Nothing about the order depends on a postal code.

We need 500 badges at 3 by 3 inches for a Glen Cove community day. What is the total? $990.00. A 3 by 3 inch sticker is 9 square inches, and the rate at 500 pieces is 22 cents per square inch, which puts each badge at $1.98.

Our Glen Cove committee only needs a small number of badges. Is that too few to order? No. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so a short run for a committee clears the line on count alone, and a few larger badges would clear it on value.

Can I collect a Glen Cove order in Huntington instead of having it sent? Yes. Pickup at 205 East Main Street is free, and you choose it at checkout instead of a shipping method.

Our group pulls members from Sea Cliff and Glen Head as well as Glen Cove. Are those covered too? Yes. Sea Cliff is 1.3 miles from you and Glen Head 1.5, along with Glenwood Landing at 2.5, Locust Valley at 3.2 and Port Washington at 3.8. The square inch rates and the quantity bands are identical for all of them.