There is a demand for locally printed whistles for communities where ICE is or forecast to be.
If you are interested in printing whistles for your area, search “ICE whistles [your area]”. You can use either your state or major nearby city. If you are interested in printing whistles, but can’t find anything, let me know and I can see if I can find a local org you can support.
Not only is that still more expensive than printing, you have to wait a week to ship instead of waking up to a print bed full of them
You are right. You can beat the prices on alibaba though. Then you could even get metal ones for 11 cents a piece.