Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Manhattan, New York

The street address carries the order

An order headed for Manhattan is routed on its street address alone, because we hold no ZIP code for it on file. That is worth saying plainly rather than papering over. When you fill in the delivery address at checkout, the street line, the building, the floor or unit, and the recipient name are what the parcel travels on. We do not guess at a postal code and we would rather you did not invent one either. If there is a suite, a shop number, a loading entrance or a floor, put it on the address line itself rather than in the notes box, because the notes stay with the job ticket while the address stays with the package. Any order inside New York County is handled the same way as every other order we take, and the paperwork side of it ends there.

What a square inch costs

Die-cut stickers are priced by the square inch, and the rate per square inch comes down as the count goes up. 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. Two things follow. The first is that outline shape does not move the price, only area does, so a circle, a rounded square and a badly behaved irregular shape of the same footprint all cost the same. The second is that the band you land in often matters more than the size you settle on. Going from a count of 40 to a count of 50 changes the rate you pay on every single piece, not only on the ten you added.

A 2.5 inch asset tag, costed out

Take the size people ask for most often when they are marking equipment: 2.5 by 2.5 inches. That is 6.25 square inches. At 500 pieces the rate is 22 cents per square inch, which puts the piece price at $1.38 and the run at $687.50 for 500. You can work it backwards just as easily. Decide the per piece figure your job can absorb, divide it by the rate in your band, and you have the area you are able to spend. That is the whole pricing model, with no second calculation hiding behind it. The shape of the cut outline is your decision rather than ours, and it does not enter the arithmetic.

The minimum, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. It is a qualifying threshold, not a price floor. A small order is not quietly rounded up to $10. If ten pieces of a modest design come to less than that, the piece count carries the order on its own. If one large piece reaches $10 by itself, the value carries it. For a trade business pricing a single replacement plate for one machine, that distinction is the difference between a number you can hand over as it stands and one you have to apologise for.

Distance, and the places next door

Manhattan sits 32.0 miles west of our counter at 205 East Main Street in

Huntington, measured in a straight line rather than by any route. We cover Brooklyn, 7.5 miles from you, the Bronx at 8.3 miles, and Queens at 8.8 miles, so if your office, your yard and your storage are spread across more than one of them, the same artwork and the same rate table apply to each. Free local pickup at the counter is available if a trip out this way is already on somebody's list. Otherwise the parcel goes to the street address you typed.

Artwork, and what the cutter follows

Asset labels tend to carry three things: a small logo, a line or two of type, and a number. Send the design at finished size and say which line the cutter should follow. If every label needs its own number, send the list, because a sequence is a set of individual files to the machine even though it reads as one design to you. Keep digits and any text you actually need to read a little inside the cut line, so that a small drift does not clip a character. Flat colour and clean vector edges hold up best at 2.5 inches and under. A logo pulled off a website at screen resolution will look like exactly that once it is printed at tool tag size, so dig out the original if you have it.

Four situations this comes up in

An electrical contractor numbering a tool crib usually wants one design and a running number, so that a meter, a drill and a set of testers can each be signed out against a tag rather than a memory. That is a sequence job, not five hundred copies of the same sticker.

A plumbing outfit tagging gear that moves between vans normally wants the company name large enough to read across a basement and the van number small underneath. Two sizes of the same artwork is common here, one for cases and one for hand tools.

A general contractor marking plant and access equipment tends to be working to somebody else's register, with a code format already decided by a main contractor or an insurer. Send the code list as it stands and we will set it as typed rather than reformatting it.

A facilities manager keeping an asset register for a building in Manhattan is usually replacing tags that have gone missing from a schedule, which means a short run with specific numbers rather than a round count. The minimum is worth checking before you place that kind of order.

Questions that come up

Is a ZIP code needed for a Manhattan delivery address, given you have none on file? No. Enter the street address, including floor or unit, and leave the postal code out rather than filling in something approximate. The street address is what the order is identified by.

Can I collect a Manhattan order at the counter instead of having it sent? Yes. Free local pickup applies to any order regardless of the delivery address you would otherwise have used, and you tell us at checkout which you want.

I need tags at a Manhattan address and at a Brooklyn address. Is that one order or two? Two. An order goes to a single address, so a run split across two sites is placed as two orders. The rate band is worked out per order, which is worth knowing if splitting would drop each one into a higher rate.

If I order 500 of the 2.5 inch square tags for a Manhattan site, what is the total? $687.50. That is 6.25 square inches at the 22 cent rate, which is $1.38 per piece, times 500.

Does a two piece Manhattan order meet your minimum? Only if those two pieces reach $10 of merchandise between them. Below 10 pieces the value has to carry it, so two small tags will not qualify while two large plates may well.