The United States Postal Service announced an agreement Friday with the NAACP on a lawsuit the civil rights organization filed prior to the 2020 election that had challenged USPS delivery delays.Under the settlement, the USPS said it anticipates enacting policies and practices during the 2022 midterms that are similar to the “extraordinary measures” used during the November 2020 general election. Those measures came amid criticism that the USPS, under the leadership of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, implemented changes that impacted the delivery of mail-in ballots during a highly consequential election year and ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Between 2024 and 2028, the Postal Service agreed to publicly post guidance documents that outline its “good faith efforts to prioritize monitoring and timely delivery” of election mail.

Under the new agreement, the agency agreed to meet with NAACP officials in the months before each national primary and general election through 2028 […]