Die-Cut Stickers for North New Hyde Park

An order for North New Hyde Park is identified by its street address, because we hold no ZIP code for it on file and we will not guess at one. Put the street line in exactly as your carrier sees it, put the town line underneath, and note Nassau County if the form has a field for it. If a postal code is required and you know the one that reaches your door, enter that. If you do not, the street line and the town line are what we work from, whether we are labelling a box or writing a ticket for free local pickup.

Most school orders reach us as a phone photo of a mascot painted on a gym wall, or a logo somebody drew for a team shirt several seasons ago that nobody has the original file for anymore. That is a normal starting point, not a problem.

The other Park names around you

The name you share a root with sits six tenths of a mile off. Garden City Park is 1.1 miles. Floral Park is 1.7 miles. Manhasset Hills is a mile away and Herricks is 1.5 miles. We cover all of them, which is exactly why the addressing matters enough to lead with. Autocomplete on a phone will happily swap one of those names for another while a parent types one handed at a kitchen counter, and the result is an order that looks right on the confirmation screen and wrong on the label.

So when you check the address before paying, read the town line last and read it slowly. One address for the whole group is one less thing to get wrong.

How far the work travels

North New Hyde Park is 17.9 miles south west of the shop, measured as a straight line on a map rather than as a route anyone would actually take. That number is useful for one thing: deciding whether collecting an order in Huntington suits someone on your committee who is heading that way anyway. For most groups it does not, and the stickers go out by carrier within the United States instead.

What a square inch costs

Die-cut stickers here are priced by area, not by shape. We take the height times the width of the sticker, which gives you square inches, and multiply that by a rate that falls as the count goes up:

35 cents per square inch 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 22 cents at 500

The shape of the cut does not change the number. A circle, a shield, a paw print and a squared off rectangle of the same height and width all price the same, which means a committee can settle on a size first and argue about the artwork afterwards without the budget moving underneath them.

A spirit run order, costed out

Take a 4 by 4 inch sticker, which is 16 square inches. At 50 pieces you are in the 28 cent band, so each one is $4.48 and 50 of them is $224.00. Push the same sticker to 100 pieces and you cross into the 26 cent band: $4.16 each, and $416.00 for the hundred.

Read those two lines next to each other. The second run of 50 costs $192.00 while the first cost $224.00, because the per piece price came down 32 cents across the whole order, not just on the extra pieces. If your group is selling at a fixed price at a table, that difference is the margin.

The smallest order we will take

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever it reaches first. Those are two separate doors into the same room. A classroom set of ten small stickers clears the count even if the money is low, and one large sticker can clear the ten dollars without getting anywhere near ten pieces. This is a minimum order rule, not a price floor.

The outline around your mascot

A die cut follows a line we draw around your artwork, and that line is a design decision worth a little of your attention. A tight contour hugging every serif of a school name looks sharp and leaves thin letters standing alone on narrow necks of material. A slightly offset outline, held a small distance out from the art all the way round, keeps the shape readable and keeps delicate parts tied into the body of the sticker. For a mascot with whiskers, tassels, spokes or a thin swoosh under the lettering, the offset outline is almost always the right call. If all that exists is a photo of the art, take it square on in even light rather than at an angle, and we will work from that.

Who tends to order these

A fundraising committee usually wants one design in one size and a count that matches the roster, plus a margin for the people who buy two. Pick your size first, find your band in the list above, and you will know your cost per piece before you go to the board for approval.

A team parent organising a spirit week is usually working from a shirt design somebody else owns. Get permission in writing from whoever holds it before you send it over, particularly if it involves a school crest.

A classroom teacher ordering for one group of students is the case the ten piece door was written for. A small run of small stickers is a legitimate order and gets treated as one.

A student club selling at a home game tends to want variety rather than one design. Each design is priced on its own area and its own count, so splitting a run across several designs leaves each of them sitting in a higher band than the combined total would have reached. If cost matters more than variety, one design in a bigger run is the cheaper structure.

Questions we get asked

Our North New Hyde Park address has no ZIP code on your form. What do I put?

Enter the postal code that reaches your own mailbox if you know it, and if you do not, leave it and give us the street line and town line. We route from the street address either way.

Does a 10 sticker order for a North New Hyde Park classroom actually qualify?

Yes. Ten pieces meets the minimum on the count alone, regardless of what the total comes to.

We are quoting a 4 by 4 inch sticker for a North New Hyde Park spirit run. Is going from 50 to 100 worth it?

The 50 run is $224.00 and the 100 run is $416.00, so the second fifty adds $192.00 rather than another $224.00. If your committee is confident of selling well past 50, the hundred is the better structure. If it is not, stay at 50.

Half our families are in North New Hyde Park and half in New Hyde Park. Can that go on one order?

Yes, and it should. Send everything to one delivery address, usually the school office or one committee chair, and hand them out at your end.

Our North New Hyde Park school logo has very thin lettering. How will it cut?

With an offset outline rather than a tight contour, so the thin strokes stay attached to the main body of the sticker instead of standing on their own. Tell us if you want the offset tighter or looser and we will set the line accordingly.