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LaserSteve:
Post 9-11 and Post Anthrax Incident lots of  universities, corporations, and government agencies went prudent on incoming mail until larger shippers got their act together on inspection..

I'm aware of a situation where five gallon pails of a drug precursor were ordered on a campus for five years. A secretary was ordering it for her boyfriend and having it delivered to various graduate students without their knowledge.   One day a graduate student received a pail before she could intercept it. Grad student knew what it was, was propely  enraged over the order of  a fairly dangerous"scheduled" chemical  in his/her name, and reported it.   Big embarrassment for one of the most recognized colleges in the field of study.  How she got around the hazmat reporting requirements, I do not know.

So in our case the  check is matching the package to the purchase order. If something is suspicious Health and Safety gets called or the PI goes to receiving. Otherwise nothing is said.

What often happens is a sales person clicks on the wrong on-campus  address and ships a package. We often receive chemicals or parts addressed to our department that we did not order, or do not know which group the package was intended for.  One of my duties as a technician is to open or identify poorly shipped containers and get them to the proper recipient.  Often even the purchase order will not have a name on it. So I end up contacting the vendor for purchase data.

If your an undergraduate on our campus you can order "edible undies" delivered to your dorm and nothing will be said. But if your paid staff and it is a business matter, your package may legally checked without consent. That is true in most of the world.

 It may sound dystopian, but in reality shipments  rarely are opened. Truck after truck delivers daily to our loading dock. There simply is not time to open and check every box.

Steve

SiliconWizard:
Not sure I got whether it was a purely personal order here from the OP, or whether it was an order placed for some university project. Two different things already.

If the former, then I'd suggest never having any personal mail sent to the organization you work at, whether it be a private company or a public institution. They all have policies for this. The previous company I worked at had a policy of OPENING any letter you received as an employee, which were all recorded in a file. But packages were not opened. That was in the company's internal regulations, so you were supposed to know it once you got employed.

So, we commonly had personal packages delivered at the workplace out of convenience, and the company tolerated it (although they were telling us to avoid large packages.)
But at some other places, internal regulations may have various policies and you're supposed to follow them.

boB:

--- Quote from: cdev on April 26, 2022, 12:04:47 pm ---Is it illegal to order PCBs from cheap Chinese PCB houses now? Or not?

--- End quote ---

No.  Not in the US or North America.   

Now, there might be tariffs paid when they entered the country...

The security guy has some kind of a complex and is totally full of shit.

If he were correct, then you would probably have to confiscate his radio, his cell phone and possibly any electronics he has on his person because they or their PCBs most likely came from China.

Geeesh !  What kind of stupidity is this country heading for ?!!?!?

boB

cdev:
That's what it seemed like it was to me too.  Since when is offering low prices illegal?

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