BONN (Reuters) - Police in the southern German town of Tuebingen on Tuesday made an early start to April Fool`s day by issuing a two-page press release on the department`s new "carrier dogs". In an effort to cut costs and get more mileage out of police dogs in their idle hours, the Tuebingen police said two underemployed canines had been trained to carry letters and messages between police headquarters and the post office. "The police will save costs and cut down on traffic congestion," Tuebingen police director Horst Kunz is quoted as saying in the statement. Accompanying the release is an Internet picture showing the dogs training with their post bags. (http:www.polizei-bw.de/ hunde.htm) A police spokesman said the university town had one of the lowest crime rates in Germany and an annual April Fool`s joke for the media had become a tradition.