What would the ID Card be without a Slot Punch? It would be just another ordinary card in your wallet.  Out of sight, and tucked away from the rest of the world. Can you imagine how much time it would waste for employees and security guards if everyone had to keep their ID in their pocket, wallet, or purse? Traffic from the street would enter the work environment and security lines would be out of the door with the amount of difficulty that would arise.

Doctors, lawyers, and teachers everywhere would be held up at an entrance, fumbling around for their ID cards, wasting valuable time in today’s fast paced world. Thankfully, we don’t have to deal with these types of hold ups, because slot punches have revolutionized the way we wear our ID cards, giving us the freedom to attach them to our clothing, lanyard, belts, or wherever else you find your most convenience. Specialist ID offers 14 different types of slot punches, from electronic to manual. If your business or brand is looking to create custom ID cards, then this ingenious device is a necessary buy. Read the rest of this entry »

Rigid Colored ID Badge Holders

We’ve got a sweet collection of Color Coded Rigid ID Badge Holder’s in stock, and they come in seven different colors, giving you an opportunity to match your badge holder with your favorite Lanyard or Badge Reel. Starting at $0.69 ea colored badge holders are an efficient and affordable way to quickly ID personnel.  Unique at specialistid.com, you can buy just the quantity you need, because we wont place a minimum on your order, and if you spend more than $50.00 worth, we’ll ship it to you for free.  You may want 10 for your employees in blue and 5 for your contractors in red; however you mix and match we got you covered. Read the rest of this entry »

Witz Waterproof Cases and ID Badge Holders are made for people looking for an adventure, but most importantly, they’re engineered so that their users can trust their documents will be protected while they’re doing things like jumping out of airplanes, scaling mountains, riding violent water rapids, hiking through jungles, woods, and deserts, or whatever else you need to do to feed that wild sense of adventure in you. They key to the success of the Witz Waterproof Cases and ID Badge Holders are in the details; they are constructed from crush resistant ABS plastic, among the toughest materials in the industry, and have rubber O – rings to keep water and dirt away from your stuff. You can use these Witz Waterproof Cases and ID Badge Holders for ID cards, passports, cellphones, tickets, or any other portable valuable within your possession, and you can just hang them around your neck from your neck lanyard and trust they’ll be tightly clipped in by your trusty carabiner, or keep them in a bag.

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Gaining enormous popularity among the hard working nurses of the world, nurses everywhere are now nursing our White Badge Reel w/ a Clear Vinyl Strap & Swivel Spring Clip. Because of this Badge Reel’s clean white background and extreme versatility, Retractable Reel ID clip & Swivel Spring Clip is fully customizable, providing you with a platform to express your individuality, and discover the artist within you without having to sacrifice premium functionality.

With a 360 degree radius and a life span of up to 100,000 pulls, the this reel’s swivel spring clip allows for a smooth pull in any direction, and the clip attaches easily and firmly to any garment at any given angle, supplying you with the freedom to adjust your reel according to your needs. Read the rest of this entry »

Get those tears out of your eyes people; Football season is back on track! Because of all the excitement, we will be offering a 10% discount off all of our Official NFL Lanyards and NFL Badge Reels until the first kickoff!  Just enter promo code “NFL10″ at checkout on SpecialistID.com up until September 8, 2011, when the New Orleans Saints travel to Lambeau Field to play the Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers. If you’re as superstitious about your sports team as its athletes are, you do not want to jinx them by starting the season without your favorite team’s Official Football Lanyard. Read the rest of this entry »

After twelve days of strikes, mail frustrations, and tens of millions of dollars in business losses, the Canada Post re-opens its doors, allowing mail between the USPS and Canada to continue.  Following a 58-hour long debate, The House of Commons passed Bill C-6, a Back to Work bill, in An Act to provide for the resumption and continuation of postal services. This bill summoned the locked out employees to resume to their positions, ending the June 14th lockout of roughly 50,000 postal workers.

From the USPS official website; “Canada Post reports exchange offices are now open and are accepting inbound international mail. Canada Post also has resumed dispatching outbound international mail”.  Thankfully, businesses and customers who have been impacted by these strikes will begin to receive mail again today.

Although the bill has passed, the workers in Canada are still not satisfied, “The government is clearly willing to side with employers to grind down wages and working conditions,” CUPW (Canadian Union of Postal Workers) National President Denis Lemelin said in a statement.  With dissatisfied employees at the Canada Post still unhappy with their predicament, USPS might expect to see this lockout happening again in the future. “I could see this getting more confrontational going forward,” British Columbia Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair told CBC news. “Workers didn’t join unions to go backwards.”

For now, we hope this news will be of much relief to our neighbors to the north as it is to us.   All packages that we had on hold due to the strike, have shipped out today.  We hope to continue providing fast, inexpensive and reliable service to our Canadian customers. We apologize for any inconvenience caused during these interruptions, and are working as quickly as possible to continue to do everything we can to provide our exceptional service regardless of the delays caused between USPS and the Canada Post.

As of Saturday, June 18th at 11:59PM (CST), the USPS has stopped accepting mail destined for Canada.  The strike and total lockout has shut down the Canada Post delivery service.  As a result of this strike and lockout, any customer that has ordered from our website, eBay Store, or Amazon.com, will be experiencing major delays in receiving their shipment.  In the mean time, we still can offer delivery to Canada with UPS.  Here is the official message from the USPS.com website.

“USPS DELIVERY OF MAIL TO CANADA STILL SUSPENDED, WILL STOP ACCEPTING MAIL EFFECTIVE COB. SATURDAY, JUNE 18.

Canada Post has informed USPS its suspension of services would last until at least next week. With this notification, USPS will stop accepting all services destined to Canada with the exception of Global Express Guaranteed (GXG) Shipments at 11:59 p.m., CST, Saturday, June 18.

Customers sending letters and packages to Canada can avoid service delays by using GXG, which is available online at usps.com and at participating retail locations throughout the U.S.”

On June, 14th, the agency locked out 50,000 workers.  Over the last week, no progress has been made in negotiations, although it looks like the government may step in and “rescue” the postal service.

We apologize to all of our customers who have been affected by the lock out.  We will keep an eye on the situation, and hope both sides are able to resolve their issues and resume postal services quickly.  If the situation is stressful for us here in the States, I can only imagine how tough it must be for small business and individuals who depend on the service for their survivability.

If you have any questions about the status of your order, please give us a call at 1-800-380-6726 or contact us online.

Fuel Card Holders are a product that I had never though too much about. However, recently I received an order for our arm band badge holders and found out it was actually for a large fleet of trucks.  They were testing to make sure they fit on the visor for holding their fuel cards.  It turns out, they work perfectly for that application and I have decided to include pictures and share this great idea with everyone.

Just about 2 weeks later, a culligan man needed fuel card holders for all of his delivery personnel.  However, they needed to keep their gas cards on the person, as they were having problems with lost cards and vehicles being broken into where valuables and even parking permits were being stolen.   The easy solution to this problem is to use an ID Badge Holder with a key ring attached so it can be kept right with your keys. Read the rest of this entry »

The Evolis R4001 Hologram Varnish Ribbon has officially been discontinued today. The R4001 ribbon will still be available to order while supplies last. The replacement for the R4001 ribbon is the R4002. The new ribbon features new artwork (Please see the image to the left) as well as a new M.A.P retail price of $71.25. (please add this to our shopping cart to see our sale price). Read the rest of this entry »

If you are looking for custom printed Photo ID Badges for your business or organization, let Specialist ID centralize and help manage your ID Card program.   The benefits of outsourcing your ID card program may likely out-weigh the costs of investing in and staffing and an in-house system. If you would like to discuss the two options, please call us at 1-800-380-6726.

There are quite a few benefits to utilizing our ID Card Service online.  First, purchasing your own ID Card System can be expensive and not justifiable for smaller organizations.  Secondly, many organizations nowadays are spread out with many employees rarely actually stepping foot in the main office.  This can be especially true for contractors and other personnel that may greatly benefit form an ID Card to clearly show their affiliation with your organization.  Our online ID Card program is streamlined and efficient, saving you time and money without sacrificing security nor professionalism. Read the rest of this entry »