It was posted on HN sooner, just didn't get traction.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Ah, the danger of single sourcing. Thanks

It wasn't put on the website till now, or nobody saw it till now, or nobody posted it here till now?

What was your expectation? Would it be slower for the government to update its website with email correspondence? Or faster?

A week seems... normal.

I thought it would be a top story is all.

I go through most links submitted to this site and you'd be surprised just how much relevant or otherwise interesting stuff doesn't make the front page. You could quite easily start an alternative HN variant populated solely with items that don't make it.