Several possibilities:
1. They went in an in box in birth order but filed from the top of the pile down.
2. More than one person was filing that morning.
3. Some klutz dropped a stack of papers and picked them up out of order.
I don’t see why this is a big deal.
“That morning” was 3 days later.
Your arguments have all been rebutted already - by Janice Okubo, Communications Director for the Hawaii Department of Health.