Your not on your own!
I have just had a look at ours & they're not in antistatic tape/reels.
Some reels arrive in anti static bags, but that's the most it appears to
be.

I guess that I'll have a word with our Q/A dept about that one....

Matthew Lamkin
Printed Circuitboard Draughtsman
Protec Hse, Churchill way,
Nelson, Lancashire.
England UK.
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><SNIP>
>We have an issue with some SMT part tapes and reels being supplied using
>non-ESD compatible materials, where we have measured up to around 1000V
>on the plastic reels, or as measured on the tapes themselves when peeled
>back. Some plastics used do appear to be static dissipative/conductive,
>as do some of the black tapes, but not all. The tape/reels in question
>are for resistor/capacitor parts, and some SOT23s etc.
><SNIP>
>However, we do not have any leverage in the market place on our own, and
>our order quantities are small - even insignificant - so the question
>is, ARE we alone?
>
>Is the rest of industry getting what it wants, or do we have to adapt
>our own practices to accommodate resistors and capacitors being
>delivered in the packaging that suppliers say we can have them in?
><SNIP>
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