diff --git a/src/actions/actions.ts b/src/actions/actions.ts
index 32c49421d3d..4d5df7dc829 100644
--- a/src/actions/actions.ts
+++ b/src/actions/actions.ts
@@ -837,9 +837,11 @@ export class DeleteOperator extends BaseOperator {
         // Vim does this weird thing where it allows you to select and delete
         // the newline character, which it places 1 past the last character
         // in the line. Here we interpret a character position 1 past the end
-        // as selecting the newline character.
-        if (end.character === TextEditor.getLineAt(end).text.length + 1) {
-          end = end.getDown(0);
+        // as selecting the newline character. Don't allow this in visual block mode
+        if (vimState.currentMode !== ModeName.VisualBlock) {
+          if (end.character === TextEditor.getLineAt(end).text.length + 1) {
+            end = end.getDown(0);
+          }
         }
 
         // If we delete linewise to the final line of the document, we expect the line
@@ -2756,12 +2758,14 @@ class ActionChangeInVisualBlockMode extends BaseCommand {
     const deleteOperator = new DeleteOperator();
 
     for (const { start, end } of Position.IterateLine(vimState)) {
-      await deleteOperator.delete(start, end, vimState.currentMode, vimState.effectiveRegisterMode(), vimState, true);
+      await deleteOperator.delete(start, end.getLeft(), vimState.currentMode, vimState.effectiveRegisterMode(), vimState, true);
     }
 
     vimState.currentMode = ModeName.VisualBlockInsertMode;
     vimState.recordedState.visualBlockInsertionType = VisualBlockInsertionType.Insert;
 
+    vimState.cursorPosition = vimState.cursorPosition.getLeft();
+
     return vimState;
   }
 }
@@ -2856,7 +2860,7 @@ class InsertInInsertVisualBlockMode extends BaseCommand {
 
         posChange = -1;
       } else {
-        await TextEditor.insert(this.keysPressed[0], insertPos.getLeft());
+        await TextEditor.insert(this.keysPressed[0], insertPos);
 
         posChange = 1;
       }