Can't speak for TDA, but Scottrade will charge that "mandatory reorg fee" on any excuse. In this case, the CUSIP number changed, so they had to do a universal find and replace on their whole data base. That must have taken at least 30 seconds.
Surely that's worth several thousand dollars in fees.
The one that really p%sed me off was when they charged me a $20 fee to credit my account with $0.10 - the cash from a merger of an old shell still in my IRA.
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