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Reason: They used to be mailed out.

• geofft 6y ago
  Did you have to mail them back when you were done reading?
  • stuu 6y ago
    Nah, sending them out was required [0] and the web wasn't the defacto medium for invesetor info not that long ago. They were all pretty fancy [1]. [0] https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/annual-report#:~:text=The%20annual%20report%20to%20shareholders,corporate%20information%20to%20their%20shareholders.&text=Reporting%20companies%20must%20send%20annual,annual%20meetings%20to%20elect%20directors https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba.... [1] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=old+annual+report&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=annual+report https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m...
    • Hackbraten 6y ago
      Hint: Netflix used to require subscribers to send the bytes of the video back to Netflix.
    • rezonant 6y ago
      Woosh
• chipotle_coyote 6y ago
  This strikes me as a very on-point answer. Other people have noted that "Annual Report" and "10-K" aren't precisely the same thing: the 10-K is the annual SEC filing, akin to the 10-Q filed quarterly. The annual report is what's sent to investors. It can just be the 10-K, but I've definitely seen many companies in the past that did what amount to full-color brochures. I'm pretty sure the phone company I worked at in the late 90s had very pretty ones, although not as witty as Netflix's.