I recently received a snail-mail letter telling me to stay invested in Admiral Shares. This pisses me off for a couple reasons:
- I'm signed up for e-Delivery on all possible communications from Vanguard. Only letters that the Feds require you to snail-mail to me should come via the post office. I seriously doubt this falls under that category.
- This was my Roth IRA account, which I opened in 1998 and have maximized contributions to every year. Because of Vanguard's once-stricter conditions on switching to Admiral shares and the crappy economy over the last 13 years, it wasn't until last year that I *could* switch to Admiral shares. I had been desperately wishing for Admiral shares until then, and I certainly don't need to be told to stay in them.
I love Vanguard, but you are wasting money on fluff. Whatever you spent snail-mailing me this letter (over and above the cost of sending me an e-mail) is money that should be going into my retirement account. Stop it. Never, ever, ever, send me another paper letter about how great Admiral shares are. You have my e-mail address. I read e-mails from Vanguard. Send communications there.
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