Custom Die Cut Stickers and Packaging Seals for Long Beach, New York

An order headed for Long Beach reaches us under a single ZIP code, 11561, and that one number settles most of the routing question before anyone tapes a carton shut. There is no second postal code to pick between at checkout, which removes the usual source of confusion when an address sits close to a boundary. What we do ask for is a street address rather than a post office box, because a run of seals travels in a carton sized by the quantity rather than by whatever fits through a mail slot. If the order is being collected instead of sent, the address on the file matters less than the name on it, because the name is what we match at the counter.

Neighbours inside a four mile radius

Long Beach is unusual on our coverage list for how tightly the nearby places we also serve are packed around it. Island Park is 1.1 miles off. Oceanside is 3.3 miles. East Rockaway is 3.7 miles. Hewlett and Cedarhurst are both 4.1 miles. All five of the nearest places we cover fall inside that 4.1 mile straight line band, which is a much tighter grouping than we see almost anywhere else in Nassau County. In practice that matters for two kinds of order. One is the maker who works at one address and stores stock at another, since both ends of that arrangement are likely to sit within the same short hop. The other is the maker who sells through a couple of small outlets and wants a portion of a run sent to each: those addresses are separate orders on our side, but they are not far apart on a map.

The shop itself is not in that cluster. Long Beach sits 24.5 miles south west of our counter at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, measured as a straight line rather than as any route a car would take. Everything is printed and cut at that one address, so pickup and shipping both start from the same room.

What a four by four inch seal works out to

Die cut stickers are priced by the square inch, and the rate per square inch comes down as the piece count goes up. From 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 the rate is 22 cents.

Take a common packaging size. A 4 by 4 inch sticker is 16 square inches. Order 100 of them and the rate is 26 cents, which makes each sticker $4.16 and the hundred $416.00. Take the same artwork to 250 pieces and the rate drops to 24 cents, so each sticker is $3.84 and the 250 come to $960.00. The useful thing to notice is that 250 crosses a band boundary, so the per sticker figure goes down at the same time as the order gets bigger. If you are already close to the top of a band, it is worth looking at what the next band does before you commit to the smaller number.

Ten pieces or ten dollars

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. That is a threshold for placing the order, not a price floor, so nothing gets rounded up to some minimum charge. A maker who wants to see a seal on an actual box before committing to a production run can order at the 1 to 24 rate and simply needs the order to reach either ten pieces or ten dollars of merchandise.

Artwork that cuts the way you drew it

Die cut means the blade follows the outline of your artwork rather than a stock rectangle or circle. That is what makes the shape available to you as a design decision rather than something you work around. Send the design at the size you want it printed, because scaling afterwards changes both the square inch figure and the relationship between the artwork and its own edge. Keep small type and thin rules away from the outline, since anything sitting right on the cut line is the first thing to look wrong. For a packaging seal the silhouette usually carries more of the load than fine detail does, so a simple confident shape tends to serve better than a complicated one.

Collecting instead of shipping

Local pickup is free and happens at the counter. Shipping goes anywhere in the United States. Either way the order is made in the same room, so nothing changes about the stickers themselves based on which you choose.

Four kinds of order we see from small product makers

The single product maker. One item, one seal, one design. This is usually where the 100 piece band earns its keep, because it is a realistic amount of packaging to get through without tying up money in a quantity that outlives the current label.

The maker with two lines. Two designs means two quantities, and each one lands in its own band on its own. It is worth checking whether combining sizes, so that both seals are the same dimensions, makes the arithmetic simpler when you reorder.

The maker refreshing a label. The box has not changed and the size has not changed, only the artwork inside the outline. If the previous run was 250 at the 24 cent rate, the new one at the same size and quantity lands in the same place.

The maker buying a block. At 500 pieces the rate is 22 cents per square inch, the lowest band on the list. This is the maker who has settled on a design and would rather hold packaging stock than think about it again for a while.

Questions people ask before ordering

Is 11561 the only ZIP code I need to give for a Long Beach delivery? Yes. That one code covers the delivery area, so there is no second postal code to choose between. We do want a full street address rather than a post office box, because the carton is sized by the run.

Can part of a Long Beach order go to an Island Park address instead? Island Park is 1.1 miles away and is a place we cover, but a second destination is a second order on our side rather than a split of one. Many makers place one order per address and keep the quantities in whatever bands suit each.

If I order 100 of the 4 by 4 inch seals to Long Beach, what happens if I go to 250? At 100 pieces the rate is 26 cents per square inch, so a 16 square inch sticker is $4.16 each and $416.00 for the hundred. At 250 the rate is 24 cents, so the same sticker is $3.84 each and the 250 total $960.00.

Does a ten piece test run count as a valid Long Beach order? It does. Ten pieces meets the threshold on its own, and so does ten dollars of merchandise, whichever you reach first. Neither is a minimum charge.

Which places near Long Beach do you also cover? Island Park at 1.1 miles, Oceanside at 3.3, East Rockaway at 3.7, and Hewlett and Cedarhurst at 4.1 miles each. All of them are inside Nassau County and all of them order from the same counter in Huntington.