Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Moriches, New York

Which Moriches goes on the order?

It is the question we hear most from club organisers out this way, and the answer is shorter than people expect: the ZIP code settles it, not the wording above it. 11955 is the code tied to this page. Once that is sitting in the shipping field, the lines above it can read however you normally write them, because we print the label from what you type rather than from what we assume you meant. We do not silently correct a hamlet name, and we do not guess between one and another.

What we make is narrow on purpose. Die-cut stickers, cut to the outline of the artwork instead of to a rectangle around it, in whatever shape the logo happens to be. Laptop decals and water bottle decals are the bulk of it. Printing and cutting both happen at one storefront on East Main Street in Huntington, and orders ship inside the United States.

## A name root that repeats along this stretch of Brookhaven

Few addresses we handle cause as much second guessing on the way into the system. Center Moriches sits 1.5 miles off, East Moriches 3.5 miles, and the three share enough of a name that a hurried checkout can land in the wrong one. Mastic is 1.4 miles away, Shirley 2.7, Mastic Beach 2.8. All of them fall inside the Town of Brookhaven and inside Suffolk County, and all of them are places we ship to, so the ZIP is doing real work rather than acting as a formality.

None of that is a problem so long as one field is right. A club roster spanning several of these hamlets still resolves to a single delivery point. Pick the address of whoever will take the box, put its ZIP underneath, and the rest of the roster is irrelevant to us.

## What a run of laptop decals comes to

Pricing runs off area, not off shape, and the rate per square inch falls as the count goes up. At 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents a square inch. 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.

Take the size most clubs land on. A 3 by 3 inch sticker is 9 square inches. At 100 pieces you are in the 26 cent band, so each one is $2.34 and the hundred comes to $234.00. Push the same design to 250 and the band drops to 24 cents, which puts each sticker at $2.16 and the 250 at $540.00.

That is worth reading twice before you settle on a count, because the rate moved underneath you. A shape wider than it is tall changes the square inch figure and therefore the price, but the bands themselves do not move.

## The ten piece line, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever it reaches first. Those two conditions mean a single large decal can clear the line on its own without the count, and a handful of small ones can clear it on the count without the dollar figure. It is a threshold for opening an order, not a floor under the price, so nothing gets rounded up to meet it. A club testing a design before committing the group budget is exactly the case it exists for.

## Sending us the club logo

The cut line follows the edge of the art, so the art needs an edge we can find. A logo that was drawn to sit on a dark background, or one that has a faint glow or shadow around it, gives the cutter an ambiguous outline, and that is the most common thing we write back about. Send the mark on its own, without the banner or the letterhead it usually lives inside, and the outline is obvious.

Scale is worth a thought too. Thin lettering inside a logo is the first thing to disappear as the shape comes down in size. If you are unsure, tell us the size you want and what it is going on, and we will say what we see.

## Four organisers, four different orders

The organiser placing a first run. You have a logo, a rough idea of the size, and no history to work from. Start at the size you want rather than the count you want, price it at a band you can afford, and let the worked example above tell you whether stepping up a band is worth it.

The organiser topping up for new members. You already know the size and the count that disappeared last time. The bands apply to the new order on its own, so a smaller top up sits in a higher band than the original run did, and that is worth factoring in before splitting a year into pieces.

The organiser buying for a shared table. Two groups, one table, one order. If both marks go in together the total count is what sets the band, and the box still arrives at one address, which is usually the simplest way to do it.

The organiser working to a fixed budget. Give us the number you have rather than the count you want. The square inch rate and the bands together mean a slightly smaller shape often buys a much larger count, and that trade is easier to see before the file is final.

## Distance, and collecting instead

Moriches is 30.5 miles east of the bench in a straight line, which is far enough that most orders out here go by post. Local pickup at the storefront is free if you would rather come to it, and guest checkout means you do not have to set anything up to place the order either way.

## Questions organisers ask us

Our members are spread across Moriches and the hamlets next to it, so which address should the order carry? Whichever one belongs to the person who will physically receive the box. Put that street address in, put its ZIP under it, and ignore where everyone else lives. One delivery point is all the label can hold.

If a Moriches club orders 250 of the 3 by 3 inch sticker instead of 100, what actually changes? The rate per square inch drops from 26 cents to 24 cents, which takes each sticker from $2.34 to $2.16. The hundred at $234.00 becomes 250 at $540.00.

We only want a small batch for a Moriches club table to see how the logo looks. Is that enough to order? Yes. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, and nothing is padded to reach it.

Our logo was drawn for a banner. Can you still cut it for a Moriches order? Usually, but send the mark by itself rather than the banner it sits on. If it has a soft edge or a shadow, the outline becomes a judgement call, and we would rather ask you than decide for you.

Can one person pay for a Moriches order and have it addressed to somebody else entirely? Yes. The billing details and the shipping details are separate fields, so a treasurer can pay while the box goes to whoever is handing the stickers out.