Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Oceanside, New York

An order for Oceanside is identified and routed by its street address, because we hold no ZIP code for it on file and we would rather ask than guess at one. That sounds like a filing detail, and most days it is, but it is the first thing we settle when a school group calls with a spirit run to outfit. Street number, street name, then the county. Everything after that is about the sticker itself: how big, how many, and what the drawing looks like when it comes off the cutter.

Addressing an order when there is no postal code to lean on

The shipping form on the site wants a full street address, and that is what the order travels on. If your group is sending to a home, give us the house number and the street. If it is going to a school office or a hall, give us the building name on its own line above the street, and put a person's name on the order so the box is not left sitting at a front desk with nobody attached to it. We do not need a postal code from you to accept the order. What we do need is a street that exists and a name that somebody at the far end recognises. Write Nassau County out in full rather than abbreviating it, because an abbreviation on a hand-filled form is the usual source of a package that wanders.

Where the shop sits in relation to you

We print and cut everything at one counter at 205 East Main Street in Huntington. Oceanside is 21.3 miles south west of that counter in a straight line, which is not a drive and not a schedule, just the number on the map. Most groups have us ship. Some prefer to come to the counter, and pickup there is free. Neither choice changes the price of the stickers or the way the artwork is handled, so pick whichever is less trouble for whoever is holding the box at the end.

What a two and a half inch sticker actually costs

Die-cut stickers are priced by the square inch, and the rate per square inch falls as the quantity climbs. 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.

Take the size a school group asks for most often, a 2.5 by 2.5 inch sticker. That is 6.25 square inches. Order 300 of them and you are in the 250 to 499 band at 24 cents, so each sticker is $1.50 and the 300 come to $450.00. Push the same sticker to 500 pieces and the rate drops to 22 cents, which puts each one at $1.38 and the full 500 at $687.50.

Read those two lines next to each other before you commit to a count. The jump from 300 to 500 is 200 more stickers for $237.50, which is cheaper per piece than anything in the 300 you had settled on. If the number in your head is close to the top of a band, it is worth looking at the band above it.

The minimum, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever one you hit first. That is a minimum order, not a price floor: a small run is not rounded up to some invented figure. A homeroom that wants a dozen stickers and a committee that wants five hundred are both real orders. They sit in different bands, so the small one costs more per square inch, but nothing is refused for being small.

Bringing in a drawing that started on paper

School artwork rarely arrives as a clean file. It is a mascot somebody inked in marker, a logo that has been photocopied through four generations, or a design a student drew for a contest. Send us what you have. We will look at it and tell you honestly whether it can be cut at the size you want, because a line that reads fine on a poster can close up on itself at two and a half inches. If a shape needs redrawing to hold together at sticker size, we say so before anything goes to the cutter, not after. The cut line follows the outside of the art, which is what makes a die-cut sticker read as the shape of the mascot rather than as a square with a mascot inside it.

Other stops we cover on the same side of the county

Plenty of orders that start on one street end up split across a few. East Rockaway is 1.6 miles away, Rockville Centre is 1.7, Baldwin Harbor is 1.8, Island Park is 2.2 and Lynbrook is 2.3. We cover all of them the same way, by street address, at the same per square inch rates. If your committee is spread over two or three of those, keep one order together and let one person hand the stickers out rather than splitting the count and losing the quantity band.

Who is usually on the other end of these orders

A PTA fundraising chair is working from a budget that was approved at a meeting and cannot quietly grow. The per square inch table is the whole price, so you can put the arithmetic in front of the board before you place anything.

A spirit run organiser wants the mascot on a water bottle, a folder and a car window, which means one shape at one size and a large enough count that the rate drops. Decide the size first, then let the quantity choose the band.

A teacher running a single classroom project needs 20 or 30 pieces, not 500. That clears the minimum comfortably and sits high on the rate table, and that is fine. Small runs are ordinary work here.

A parent volunteer who inherited the job in September is usually the one holding somebody else's art file and no context. Send it as it is. We will tell you what we can and cannot do with it.

Questions we get from Oceanside groups

There is no ZIP code shown for Oceanside on your site. What do I put in the shipping fields? Your street number and street name, the state, and Nassau County. We route the order on the street address, and nobody here needs a postal code from you to accept it.

Our Oceanside PTA wants 300 stickers at 2.5 by 2.5 inches. What is the total? That size is 6.25 square inches and 300 pieces falls in the 24 cent band, so $1.50 each and $450.00 for the 300.

If our Oceanside order goes from 300 pieces to 500, does the price per sticker change? Yes. At 500 the rate is 22 cents a square inch, so the same 2.5 by 2.5 inch sticker is $1.38 each and the 500 come to $687.50.

Our Oceanside homeroom only wants 12 stickers. Is that too few to order? No. Ten pieces clears the minimum. Twelve sits in the 35 cent band, which is the highest rate on the table, but the order stands on its own.

Our mascot was drawn by an Oceanside student on paper. Can you cut a sticker from it? Send us the scan or the photo and we will tell you whether the linework holds together at the size you want. If it needs to be redrawn to survive the cut, we raise that with you first.