BAMBERG, Germany — The Army plans to consolidate mailing centers scattered throughout communities into centralized locations called postal service centers.

The centers will combine unit and community mail rooms, regional post offices, Army post offices and official mail distribution centers all into one facility for each military community, according to Installation Management Command-Europe officials.

"We are really looking forward to this," said Douglas Stewart, postmaster for Warner Barracks post office in Bamberg. "Customers will be able to get everything done at once."

The Bamberg facility will nearly double in size and add a second floor to its postal service center as part of the consolidation.

Several bases have already begun consolidating their mail operations, including Grafenwöhr, Baumholder, Wiesbaden, Garmisch, and Stuttgart, in Germany, as well as Brussels and Chievres in Belgium, and Schinnen, Netherlands, according to an IMCOM-Europe news release.

Officials also are looking at ways to hasten mail delivery from the main distribution hub in Frankfurt, Germany, to bases around Europe.

"We’re looking at ideas like reducing the number of regional post offices and delivering all mail directly to the postal service centers,""said Monique Bagby, IMCOM-Europe postal transformation program manager. The transformation is scheduled to be complete throughout Europe by 2014, according to Bagby.