Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Massapequa Park, New York

The full rate card

Twenty four die cut stickers at 2 by 3 inches come to $50.40, and twenty five of that same sticker come to $45.00. The second number really is the smaller one. A 2 by 3 inch sticker is 6 square inches, and we price die cut stickers by the square inch, with the rate per square inch falling as the piece count rises. At 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents, which puts that sticker at $2.10 each. At 25 pieces the rate is 30 cents, which puts the identical sticker at $1.80 each. So one extra piece takes the total down and hands you an extra sticker at the same time. If you carry one thing away from this Massapequa Park page, carry that.

The rate per square inch 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. To work out any order, take the width times the height of the finished sticker to get square inches, multiply by the rate for the band your count falls in, then multiply by the count. Nothing else enters the calculation.

There is a minimum, and it helps to understand what kind of minimum it is. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. A small seal ordered in a count of 12 qualifies on the piece count, even when the money involved is modest. One large panel qualifies on the merchandise figure, even though it is a single piece. It is a floor on the order, not a floor on the price.

Reading the steps before you commit

Every step on the card sits immediately past a round number, and that is where people get caught out. The 24 and 25 pair is the obvious one, but 49 and 50 behave the same way, and so do 99 and 100, and 249 and 250, and 499 and 500. Before you settle on a count, look at where you are sitting relative to the next line. If you are one or two pieces short of it, crossing over leaves you with a lower rate on every piece and a handful of spares besides. Spares are not wasted. Sealing boxes by hand means the occasional one goes on crooked.

Seals for a small product line

A packaging seal is a small, quiet job with very little room in it. It goes across a flap or a fold, it carries a mark or a short line of type, and it has to sit square. If you are putting together a small product line in Massapequa Park and you need something to close a box, a bag or a wrap of tissue, the die cut format suits it, because the sticker is cut to the outline of the artwork rather than sitting on a printed square you then have to trim or live with.

On a seal the square inch figure stays low and the count is what tends to move, so once you know your finished size you can price several counts against each other and pick the one that fits the packaging you already buy.

Two neighbours at exactly the same distance

Massapequa Park has a quirk in its geography that matters more than it sounds. Massapequa and East Massapequa both sit 1.1 miles away, the same figure for each, and North Massapequa is 1.4 miles out. Amityville is 2.0 miles and Seaford is 2.1 miles. We cover all of them, so we see a steady mix of similar looking addresses, and what keeps them apart on an order is the ZIP code. For Massapequa Park that is 11762.

The shop itself is 14.2 miles north of you in a straight line, at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, where the printing and the cutting happen. That figure is measured point to point, not along any road.

Sizing, shape and artwork

Send the artwork with the outline you want cut, and tell us the finished width and height. Those two measurements are what produce the square inch figure the rate card is applied to, so a circle, an oval, a rounded rectangle and an irregular badge are all handled the same way. Keep any type well inside the edge of the shape rather than running it right up to the cut. If the design has a background colour, extending it slightly past the cut line keeps a white sliver from showing along one side. If you are unsure whether a shape will read at the size you have in mind, print it at actual size on plain paper and hold it against the packaging.

Pickup or shipping

You can have an order sent, or you can come to the shop and pick it up at no charge. We ship to addresses in the United States.

Four people this page is for

If you make a product yourself and box it at your kitchen table, you are the case the worked example above was written for. Twenty five is a sensible first count, clear of the minimum and in the second band.

If you run a small line with several variants, price one seal size and reuse the shape across the range, changing only the artwork. The square inch figure stays put and you can compare counts directly.

If you are buying on behalf of someone else and need a figure to put in front of them, the rate card above is the whole calculation. Width times height times rate times count.

If you have ordered seals before and the last run ran out, look at the count you used last time and check whether the next band is within reach. The step is often closer than you remember.

Questions people ask

Is 10 pieces really enough to place a Massapequa Park order? Yes. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever of those it hits first. Ten small seals is a valid order.

Why is a Massapequa Park order of 25 seals cheaper than an order of 24? Because 25 is the first count in the next band. At 24 the rate is 35 cents a square inch and a 2 by 3 inch sticker is $2.10 each, so $50.40 for the 24. At 25 the rate is 30 cents, the same sticker is $1.80, and 25 of them is $45.00.

My address says Massapequa Park but the next street over does not. Does that change the price? No. The rate card is the only thing that sets the figure, and it responds to size and count alone. Two addresses a street apart with different names on them pay exactly the same for the same order.

East Massapequa and my own address are listed at the same distance from your shop. Does a Massapequa Park order get handled differently because of that? Not at all. Distance is listed so you can see what we cover, and the 1.1 mile figure being identical for two neighbours is a coincidence of geography rather than anything that touches the order.

Which ZIP code should go on a Massapequa Park order? 11762. It is the one that separates you cleanly from the similarly named places nearby, so put it on the order and on the artwork approval if you are sending one.