Beauty of Bureaucracy

A few days ago I received a letter from the Department of Justice concerning my application to have my gender legally corrected. It read as follows:

Our ref: [reference thingy]

AMENDMENT OF BIRTH RECORD
I refer to your recent enquiry to the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Please return your original change of name certificate in your current name for cancellation. Once I am in receipt of that certificate, I can finalise you [sic] application and send you an amended certificate.

The change of name certificate I'd sent with the application was a copy, not the original, so I thought, "Hm, fair enough" and sent along the original with the following letter:

RE: [reference thingy]

As requested, please find enclosed my original Change of Name certificate to be cancelled/amended.

Yours sincerely,
Amanda [Surname]

Today, what should show up in my letter box but the same Change of Name certificate with a note scrawled in blue pen, all capitals:

PLEASE STATE WHAT NEEDS TO BE AMENDED.

Um, people? Aren't you supposed to be the ones who tell me that? Do you actually know what you're doing? -.-

Nevermind. Retaliate with the original letter I received stapled to their note, adding in my own black ink:

Please see attached. I was requested to supply the documentation for amending without being told what is to be amended.

-Amanda

Guess we'll see what happens.