Indeed, some house grounds have induced voltages in having long runs back to any ground point; and might not be the safest thing to tie your static mat to as a "ground" point. "Ground" in AC systems may have imbalance phase currents and be much different from a zero voltage point. It shouldn't ideally, but the real world resistances of wiring carrying heavy current my make it so.
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