sometimes you just need some basic information

In the grand scheme of things, this is really mainly just a minor annoyance. But it's a frequent annoyance and has worked itself up to pet peeve level.

Why is contact information so frequently buried/hard-to-find/or just plain not there on websites? I often need a street address or a phone number so I can make a book shipment for a prize entry. I don't want to actually call these people, I just need a departmental phone number for the shipping label. I'm always surprised at how many university and college web pages make contact information so difficult to find.

What's even more surprising to me is the number of journals that publish book reviews (so they're obviously game to receive books), yet fail to include any information on their pages about where to send books for review consideration. Sometimes they list the book review editor's name and an institutional affiliation. Often they don't even do that. It's a such a simple thing. And one of the easiest ways possible to make the book submission--followed by the determination of whether to actually review the book or not--smooth and straightforward. And if they don't do reviews or do not accept unsolicited books for review, it's helpful to have that clearly included somewhere too. It doesn't seem like a revolutionary idea, yet surprisingly (to me at least) it doesn't seem typical.

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Happy Birthday wishes traycer_, my fellow one_prompt mod and all around good egg. Hope it's a good one!