But of course, if I obtained the necessities on my own, then there would be sheaves of paperwork needed.  So of course, Subassistant Scurridae gets to fill out reams of forms, make the proper transmissions, and sure enough the proper files, slides and drives would then be delivered by a ships personnel who would be slighlty grumpy because they had lots of other important things to do than deliver cargo to a mere subassistant. And one who worked for Internal Registrations at that.