Custom Die-Cut Stickers for West Sayville, New York

An order bound for West Sayville is addressed with the hamlet name written out in full on the delivery line and 11796 on the line beneath it, and it is the ZIP that does the routing while the name above it is the part a person reads. Both have to be right. Only one of them is easy to get wrong, and the first word of that address line is doing more work than it looks like it is doing.

Most of what we print for 11796 is small and repetitive: one piece of artwork, one size, one run. Packaging seals are the clearest case. A seal is the sticker that closes a box flap, sits across a tissue wrap, or lands on a jar lid as the last thing a maker touches before a product leaves the table. It is the piece that gets sized wrong most often, usually by a quarter of an inch.

The first word of the address line

The name root is shared with Sayville, which is 1.5 miles away, so the whole difference between two separate delivery addresses can come down to one word at the front of a line. Address forms that autocomplete will drop that word, and so will a copy and paste out of an old invoice. Read the first line back once before you move on, and if the form has quietly rewritten it, put the word back. We print what the order says, and nothing in the artwork tells us which of the two you meant.

How far the shop sits from you

Our storefront is at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, and West Sayville is

18.4 miles south east of it in a straight line. That is a straight line across the map and nothing more, but it is the number worth having, because it is what tells you whether free local pickup at the counter is something you would actually use or whether you would rather have the box sent. We ship within the United States. Orders from the 11796 side of Suffolk County go both ways, and neither choice changes the printing.

What a seal costs by the square inch

Die-cut stickers are priced per square inch, and the rate per square inch falls as the quantity goes up. The bands are: 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. Work out the square inches first, then find your band, then multiply. A 2 by 2 inch seal is 4 square inches. At 120 pieces you are in the 26 cent band, which puts that seal at $1.04 each and the run of 120 at $124.80. Nothing about the shape changes that arithmetic. A circle that fits inside a 2 by 2 inch square is priced from the square it fits inside, not from the circle.

Where the price actually moves

The interesting thing about the bands is that the moment they change is not gradual. Take the same 2 by 2 inch seal from 120 pieces up to 250 and the rate drops from 26 cents to 24, which makes each seal $0.96 and the run of 250 $240.00. So you are paying less per seal for more than twice as many. That is worth knowing before you settle on a number, particularly if you sit near the top of a band. The reverse holds too: 24 pieces and 25 pieces fall on opposite sides of a line. Nobody will move you up a band without asking, so if you want to know what the next band would do to your total, ask.

Drawing the shape you want cut

The cut is a path, not a preset. If your seal is a plain circle or a rounded square, say so and we will draw it. If it is the outline of your own mark, with a scalloped edge or a notch or a tail coming off one side, the cut can follow that outline instead. What we need is artwork where the intended edge is unambiguous, either because you have drawn the cut path or because the shape is clean enough to trace without guessing. Fine points and hairline necks between two parts of a shape are where designs get compromised, so if your mark has one, flag it when you order rather than after.

Small runs and the order minimum

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. It is not a price floor and it is not a fee. It means a genuinely tiny order is possible: a dozen seals to check how a design sits on a real box, or one larger piece that clears $10 on its own. That is a sensible way to find out that your 2 by 2 inch square wanted to be 1.75 inches.

Who tends to order these

If you make something in small batches at home and box it yourself, the seal is usually the only printed piece in the package that carries your name, so it is worth sizing it against the actual flap rather than against a screen.

If you are selling at fairs and markets and packing to order, you probably want one round seal that works across two or three box sizes rather than three different seals, and the square inch pricing makes that easy to compare.

If you run a small product line with more than one variant, consider a single neutral seal plus a separate small sticker for the variant name. Two short runs in different sizes are often less awkward than one run you then have to write on.

If you are ordering on behalf of someone else, a partner, a client, a family member with a side business, get the delivery address from them in writing. The address is the one part of the order we cannot sanity check for you.

Questions we get from this corner of Islip

Can a West Sayville address get confused with the neighbouring one, and how do I stop it?

Yes, and the fix is boring: write the full name on the delivery line and leave 11796 on the line below. The ZIP resolves it even when the name does not.

I am pricing 2 by 2 inch seals for a West Sayville product line. What happens between 120 and 250 pieces?

At 120 you are at 26 cents per square inch, so $1.04 each and $124.80 total. At 250 the rate is 24 cents, so $0.96 each and $240.00 total.

Can I place a West Sayville order for only a dozen seals to test a box?

Yes. Ten pieces clears the minimum, so twelve is fine. You would be in the 35 cent band at that quantity, which is the highest rate, and that is the trade.

My seal has a scalloped edge. Will a West Sayville order cut to that shape or just to a circle?

It cuts to the scalloped edge if the artwork makes the intended edge clear. Send the cut path if you have it, and tell us about any narrow necks.

I am closer to Oakdale, Bohemia, Bayport or North Great River than to you. Is a West Sayville order handled differently?

No. Everything is printed and cut at the one address in Huntington regardless of which of those you are nearest, and pickup and shipping are open to all of them.