Office supplies

Three months after putting in an office supply order, a local staffer comes back to me and tells me that you can't put both items in the same request, which fine, I get since this is the government and normal way of thinking doesn't apply but what really gets my goose, why did it take the local staffer 3 MONTHS to tell me this?! URGH! #neverwouldhavehappenedinSarajevo