Quote Originally Posted by sabe View Post
Of course they should and that has no bearing on the threads left either.

Screw->Washer->Card->Standoff->no threads left. Aren't m3x8 screws supposed to have 8mm of threading? My screws in both packages have only 6mm of threading.
There is a +/- tolerance on everything made, what that # is, is dependent upon how mission critical the part is. Also seeing it's a screw (and likely made on a screw machine) it likely took 5-8 seconds to make, now times that by an average work shift of 8 hrs and it quickly adds up to not being able to check each and every last screw that is made so some short/long ones will get through the QA/QC process. In your case though, that seems to bit a good bit short and sounds like it may be a packaging error on EK's part.