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wraper:

--- Quote from: KL27x on April 22, 2019, 10:08:50 pm ---I have ordered thousands. I already know and have already shared that with you.

There is principle called Occam's razor.

You have 3 things which are unusual:
1. The IC tube was bagged in a way that is possible but highly out of the norm.
2. Mouser just happened to change the way they tape boxes for the first time in over a decade.
3. The box and contents just happened to be damaged, which in itself is very rare.

There is 1 thing which can explain them all: human intervention

This is the most likely solution.

--- End quote ---
The most likely solution is Mouser changed tape recently at least in part of their packing line, and it just happened that box got damaged in shipping. What is more probable, box simply got damaged in shipping, or someone gone extreme lengths to fiddle with your package on multiple stages of highly automated line? 
I know. It's Russia colluded with it  :-DD. Don't dare to use those components, there might be spyware installed on them.
Monkeh:
You're both being idiots. Get over yourselves and each other.
KL27x:

--- Quote ---The most likely solution is Mouser changed tape recently at least in part of their packing line, and it just happened that box got damaged in shipping. What is more probable, box simply got damaged in shipping, or someone gone extreme lengths to fiddle with your package on multiple stages of highly automated line? 
--- End quote ---

Even if you remove evidence #1, the answer is still human inspection/intervention. To anyone not named Wraper, that is obvious.
wraper:
BTW, if someone wanted to ship you damaged tube, that tube could be cut in half, and sent in two-three pieces. I don't recall this from mouser but effing farnell (element14/newark) sent me around of 500 micro USB connectors in like 8 pieces of tape, long and short + few tens of them loose in separate bag, many with legs bent. I was like WTF, seemed like they wiped what was tossed on the floor and sent it to me.
KL27x:
^Of course that is not unusual to see. I've had QFN's scraped out of a bin and put into a tube by hand. I know cuz they were all put in sideways. And whenever you get the last of a lot, you get partial tubes even if you ordered a whole one.

This package they were not trying to hide any damage.* I imagine they just wanted to put eyes on it to make sure it wasn't too bad and still make the scheduled shipping pickup.

*In hindsight, perhaps the obvoiusly different tape job is procedural, to ensure this can be differentiated from carrier damage.

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