Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Montauk, New York

An order bound for Montauk is identified on our end by one thing before anything else: the ZIP, 11954. Paired with a street and the name of whoever will actually take the box, that number decides whether a finished job waits in the pickup bin at the counter or goes into a carton. There is a single ZIP out here and no second one to confuse it with, which keeps the addressing on a team order about as plain as addressing gets.

One ZIP, and the name that matters more

The line people get wrong is not the street. It is the name. A decal run for a youth sports side is usually paid for by one person and received by another, often at a house rather than at a field. Put the receiving person on the shipping line and the paying person on the billing line. The two do not have to match, and nothing breaks if they differ. If the order is going to a seasonal address, write that in the order notes instead of assuming we will infer it from the ZIP. Notes get read before anything is boxed.

The longest line we draw

Of everywhere we cover in Suffolk County, Montauk is the one that sits furthest from the shop. The straight line from 205 East Main Street in Huntington measures 76.7 miles, running east. That is a line on a map and nothing more. It is not a route, and it says nothing about how a person would actually travel it. The nearest place on our list is Springs, 11.1 miles off. If you are coordinating a decal order with families split between the two, they are close enough to each other that one shipment to one house and a hand off at practice is often less trouble than two separate orders.

What a run of decals actually costs

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

Work it through at the size most team orders land on. A 2 by 2 inch decal is 4 square inches. Order 25 and the rate is 30 cents, so each one is $1.20 and the 25 together come to $30.00. Order 50 and the rate drops to 28 cents, so the same 2 by 2 inch decal is $1.12 each and 50 of them is $56.00. Put another way, the second 25 pieces cost $26.00 rather than $30.00, and you finish with spares for the siblings and for the assistant coach who asks once he sees them.

Nothing about the size is fixed at 2 by 2. Square inches are square inches, so a 3 by 2 oval and a 2 by 3 upright both come to 6 square inches and price identically. Choose the shape first, then read the rate off the piece count.

The minimum, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever it reaches first. Those are two doors into the same room. It is not a price floor, and it is not a bundle you are pushed into. One large decal can clear $10 on its own. A dozen small ones clear the piece count without coming near $10. For a team run the question rarely arises, because a roster plus coaches plus spares is past 10 before the list is finished.

Getting the artwork to behave

Send the mark at the size you want it cut, or tell us the finished size you have in mind and we will scale to it. Type is the thing worth checking twice. A player number at 2 inches across reads cleanly. The same number tucked inside a crest that is itself only 2 inches across may not. Leave clear space between the artwork and the cut line so a slight shift at the cutter does not shave a letter. If the design carries a jersey number or a season year, send that element on its own layer. It makes next year's version a much simpler piece of setup.

Coming to the counter or going in a carton

Free local pickup at the shop is open to anyone who would rather collect than ship, at any distance. Everything else goes by post inside the United States. Given where a Montauk order starts from, most people take the shipping option, and the choice costs nothing either way.

Four people who tend to place this order

The team manager ordering for a full roster. Build the count from the roster, then add the coaching staff, then add a handful of spares. The rate band is decided by total pieces, so those spares frequently cost less each than the ones you were certain about.

The parent collecting money by text. Quote the per piece figure rather than the order total. At 25 pieces a 2 by 2 decal is $1.20, and $1.20 is a number people can send back to you without doing any arithmetic first.

The club treasurer buying for more than one age group. Put them on a single order instead of three. Three sets of 20 placed separately sit at 35 cents per square inch. The same 60 pieces on one order sit at 28 cents.

The grandparent who only wants two. You are welcome to order two, though two small decals may not reach either door of the minimum. Two 2 by 2 decals at 35 cents come to $2.80. Adding them onto somebody else's run is usually the easier path.

Five things people ask before they order

Does a Montauk order need anything on it beyond the 11954 ZIP? A recipient name and a street, and that is the lot. The single ZIP does the rest. If the decals should go to a person other than the one paying, put that person on the shipping line so the label carries the right name.

We are looking at 25 decals for a Montauk team. Is there a reason to stretch to 50? Only arithmetic. Twenty five 2 by 2 decals cost $30.00 at 30 cents per square inch. Fifty cost $56.00 at 28 cents, so the extra 25 come in at $26.00. If you expect anyone to ask for a spare, the second band is the cheaper way to buy it.

Some of our families are in Springs and some are in Montauk. Can that be one order? Yes, and it is worth doing. The rate depends on the total piece count, not on how many households the decals end up in. One order of 60 prices better than three orders of 20. Split them at your end after they arrive.

Montauk is a long way from the counter. Is free local pickup any use to us? It stays available if anyone on the team is heading toward Huntington anyway and would rather collect the box in person. Most orders at this end of the county go by post instead, and nothing about the price changes when they do.

Our roster numbers change every season. Can next season's Montauk order reuse this year's artwork? Yes. Send the same file and tell us what changed. This is the reason to keep the number or the year on its own layer when the design is first built. Only that layer needs swapping, and the crest underneath stays exactly as it was.