audreyh1
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Thanks for the original OP. We also have Agent Authorizations set up, but it is I who manage both accounts. The other week she received a physical check for 25c as a dividend from her Money Market account so I sent a personal message asking why it didn't get re-invested as it was a waste of VG's money to issue paper checks for 25c.
I did however write the message as if I was her, and she got the email telling her that she had a secure message waiting. I did wonder what would happen if I asked as myself rather than pretending to be her - now I know.
PS
If you empty out a MM account then a residual dividend from the previous month will be paid by physical check, even when you have the fund set up for ACH bank transfers and/or re-investing dividends, so now I will be sure and leave $1 in that account.
This drives me nuts too. Occasionally I transfer some assets from our short-term mutual fund account to our brokerage account. I have dividends directed to cash in that account, but if I have transferred all mutual fund shares they inevitably issue and mail a check for that last partial month of dividends. This time I even did it on Jan 2 hoping to avoid a dividend. But nope - got notice last Friday they'd mailed me a check for $7.50. Annoying!!!!