---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 1339"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "1339"
heading: "Postal matters"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/1339"
units:
  - "Part IV — Jurisdiction and Venue"
  - "Chapter 85 — District Courts; Jurisdiction"
---

# §1339. Postal matters


The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action arising under any Act of Congress relating to the postal service.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 932.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 41(6) (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 24, par. 6, 36 Stat. 1092).

Changes were made in phraseology.