Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Hampton Bays, New York

An order for Hampton Bays is identified by one ZIP code, 11946, written under the hamlet name, with the Town of Southampton and Suffolk County sitting behind it on the map rather than on the shipping label itself. On the east end that distinction is worth knowing, because a postal address and a municipal name do not always agree, and a box routes on the ZIP. Put the hamlet name and 11946 on the form and the cartons arrive where you meant them to. If your billing address is a home or an office and the labels need to land at a kitchen door instead, enter the two separately at checkout. Everything is printed and cut at one storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, so there is only ever one place an order comes from and one address it is going to.

A ZIP code with a lot of company

The five places nearest to you that we also print for all fall inside a short span of map. East Quogue is 3.0 miles away, Flanders 4.6, Southampton 7.1, North Sea 7.6, and Riverhead 7.9. That is five separate covered locations inside eight miles, which is tight. If you run more than one address out here, or you supply a second kitchen, those destinations are close enough to each other that they are effectively one ordering problem rather than five. The practical consequence is on quantity, and quantity is what sets the rate.

How the per square inch rate actually works

Die-cut stickers are priced by area, not by a flat per piece charge, and the rate per square inch steps down as the count goes up. It is 35 cents at 1 to 24 pieces, 30 cents at 25 to 49, 28 cents at 50 to 99, 26 cents at 100 to 249, 24 cents at 250 to 499, and 22 cents at 500. Because the price is area based, the size you choose drives the cost as much as the count does.

A worked example with a takeout label

Take a square label at 2.5 by 2.5 inches, which is 6.25 square inches, a common enough footprint for the lid of a takeout container. At 250 pieces you are in the 24 cent band, so the label is $1.50 each and 250 of them come to $375.00. Push the same label to 500 pieces and the rate drops to 22 cents, which puts it at $1.38 each and $687.50 for the full 500. The unit price falls by twelve cents and you have doubled the count for well under double the money. That is the whole shape of the pricing in one comparison.

The minimum, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. Those are two separate doors into the same room, and you only need one of them. A small run of large labels clears the dollar threshold long before it clears the piece count, and a run of very small labels does the opposite. This is a qualification rule, not a price floor. It adds nothing to what you are charged and it does not push you into a band you did not want.

Artwork, cut lines and the shape you are paying for

A die cut follows the outline of your design rather than a rectangle around it, which means the shape is yours to choose. What you are billed for is the area of the bounding box the piece occupies, so a circle two and a half inches across and a square two and a half inches on a side price the same way even though one has less ink on it. Send the artwork with the outline you want cut clearly distinguishable from the printed design. If the label carries small type, an ingredient line or a lot number, keep that type well inside the cut line, because a cut running near the edge of text is far less forgiving than one running through open background.

Who this tends to be for

If you run a counter service kitchen and your containers leave with nothing on the lid but a marker scrawl, a printed label is the plainest way to put a name on the food after it goes out. One design, one size, the count set by how many lids you get through.

If you are a caterer working off site, labels do double duty as identification. The same piece that carries your mark can carry the dish name on a second line, which makes a tray table legible to somebody who did not cook the food.

If you bake and sell wholesale into someone else's case, your label is the only thing on the package that is yours. Wholesale runs are the ones that reach 250 or 500 pieces, which is where the per square inch rate does the most work.

If you operate a second address near the first, order the shared elements as one run and keep anything address specific on a smaller separate piece. Two small runs plus one large run will usually beat two medium runs at 26 cents.

Getting the boxes to you

Hampton Bays sits 45.5 miles east of the shop in a straight line, so most orders out here go by carrier, and shipping is within the United States only. Free pickup at the Huntington counter is there if you happen to be coming west anyway. Choose whichever suits you at checkout.

Questions people ask about east end sticker orders

How should I write the shipping address on a Hampton Bays order so the boxes land correctly? Use the hamlet name and 11946. The Town of Southampton and Suffolk County belong to the municipal picture, not to the mailing line, and adding them helps nothing. If the delivery point is a kitchen rather than an office, enter that address in the shipping field and leave the billing field alone.

If I move a Hampton Bays order from 250 labels to 500, what happens to the price? On the 2.5 by 2.5 inch example, 250 pieces sit at 24 cents per square inch, so $1.50 each and $375.00 total. At 500 the rate becomes 22 cents, so $1.38 each and $687.50 total. You pay $312.50 more and receive 250 more labels.

I run one small kitchen in Hampton Bays and only want labels for a single batch. Is ten pieces enough to place the order? Yes. Ten pieces qualifies on its own, and so does ten dollars of merchandise if your piece count is lower than that. You will be in the 35 cent band at that size, which is the highest rate, but the order is a valid one.

Can a single order cover both my Hampton Bays address and my East Quogue address? An order ships to one destination, so if you need cartons at two doors, place them as two orders. What you can do is keep the artwork identical and the run large, then divide the boxes yourself once they land. The two addresses are 3.0 miles apart.

Do my Hampton Bays labels have to be square like the 2.5 by 2.5 inch example? No. The example is square because it makes the arithmetic easy to follow. Your outline can be a circle, an oval, a rounded rectangle or the silhouette of your own mark. Price follows the area the shape occupies, so a design that fits inside a smaller box costs less per piece than one that does not.