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@Oliver Schick
Well, the (originally) reflexive pronoun in English is often applied for emphasis in the (weakened) accusative and while it's poor style, it's widely accepted usage by now. It's just that it is felt that 'please contact Bob or me' (which is completely correct) doesn't quite sound right. I think that's because of the vague relationship between verbs and pronouns owing to the weakness of pronoun declension in English. The 'me' doesn't seem to relate to 'contact' well enough, which is why people swerve it and use 'myself' instead.
If you want to get around the problems with either possibility, you can always extend the phrase to something like: 'Please contact either of us, Bob X or hugo7 X, if you need further information.' There's often no better resolution of such nagging little problems.