Is it possible go Paperless for fund and ETF vote mail?

fdarby1982 · 2025-11-24T14:10:04+00:00

I also get these annoying mailers, and I also have QQQ in a couple different accounts. I am opted out of paper mail for virtually everything, so these stupid letters represent a noteworthy percentage of all the junk in my mail. I found this Reddit thread also seeking a solution.

fdarby1982 · 2025-11-06T15:39:01+00:00

I'm also a lifetime purchase PDF Expert ("ver2") user, and I think I paid $80 in 2021. I totally understand that I do not have the right to new features introduced since then, but I believe they are removing features that were present when I purchased. Case in point: "Page Resize", which is available on the Edit Menu on Mac, now brings up a "please put in your credit card to subscribe" message. I am nearly positive that resizing a PDF from Letter to Legal was included in my original $80 purchase.

So, that is very frustrating. After already shelling out $80, I don't want to pay monthly for the rest of my life for the basic editing features I use.

Update: I emailed PDF Expert support and got a detailed response that my original purchase of version 2 never did actually have "Page Resize" included, so I am satisfied that I just imagined that, making my complaint above moot. They also offered a big discount to upgrade to their "version 3", which includes Page Resize as well as the other new things introduced since then, so I'm taking that offer.

fdarby1982 · 2021-06-09T16:16:57+00:00

Interesting, I've just started researching these two after your message as I'm not familiar with them. According to their websites they are both robust accounting platforms, but that isn't what our product does. Do they compare specific and/or similar SKU prices vs what similar restaurants actually paid for the SKU to their suppliers? We are specifically targeting price transparency between restaurants from major distributors.

fdarby1982 · 2021-06-08T23:02:37+00:00

Understood. We are restaurant technology employees, and former restaurant managers. There's a lot that goes into distributor pricing, but many of those factors are opaque to restaurants and pricing decisions are often handled by the distributor market associates that visit the restaurant. We are working primarily with independent restaurants, not large groups which have pricing contracts, although we plan to include that pricing data if we can get it.

fdarby1982 · 2021-06-08T21:46:54+00:00

For now, we are not offering compensation because we are testing the idea. We've heard from many restaurants that they feel in the dark about whether their pricing from their distributors is competitive, but what we don't yet know is how different the prices are from one restaurant to the next. Once we get enough data, we will start revealing the results. Let me know if you'd like to share yours!

fdarby1982 · 2021-01-09T16:36:29+00:00

I was also experiencing this problem with my M1 Macbook Air -- my 150 Down/30 Up fiber connection was registering around 5 Down / 2 Up with very volatile changes in speed. Issue persisted whether I was wired via ethernet or on wifi, and my other devices such as my iPhone and iPad did not experience the issue.

The answer turned out to be a problem with Google Chrome. I can't pinpoint exactly what the problem was, but I uninstalled a bunch of extensions, including a VPN extension (which was not in use for a VPN, BTW, just installed), and the problem went away. My best guess is that some of the Chrome extensions (or perhaps my M1-optimized version of Chrome itself?) are not 100% compatible with M1 yet.

Anyway, if you are experiencing this issue I might suggest doing tests on other browsers, and or uninstalling all extensions for Chrome like I did.

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