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Britain's Royal Mail has "systemically failed" to meet its mail delivery requirement, lawmakers have said, calling upon regulator Ofcom to probe the postal operator.

"We believe that Royal Mail has systemically failed to deliver against parts of its universal service obligation," read a report from the cross-party Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee.

A strike over pay at Britain's largest container port threatens to spark fresh delays and rising costs for companies and consumers alike, but logistics experts say there should be no product shortages.

Workers at Felixstowe port in southeastern England on  Aug. 21 began an eight-day strike, the first in 30 years, as decades-high inflation intensifies a cost-of-living crisis.

The union representing Greek aviation workers, OSYPA, have called off a strike scheduled to take place on Thursday and Friday which would have seen the cancellation of dozens of domestic flights.

The announcement that the strike was off came just hours after it had been called.