I often need to copy larger vertical selections e.g. when working with (let's stay civilized) "getter/setter"-rich interfaces, e.g

A very long line with something I would like to copy: ABC$ A short line with nothing$ A very long line with something I would like to copy: ABC$

Here I have used $ to indicated the end of the line. I now make a visual vertical selection on e.g. the A in the column 55 across all lines, yank it and paste it with P before that column and get extra whitespace inserted in the second line.

A very long line with something I would like to copy: AABC$ A short line with nothing $ A very long line with something I would like to copy: AABC$

Is there a way to avoid the extra whitespace? Changing characters in the vertical visual selection doesn't seem to suffer from this issue.