diff --git a/process/orders-accept b/process/orders-accept
index 1e4dea2aa..33b3d5ecc 100755
--- a/process/orders-accept
+++ b/process/orders-accept
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ cd $(dirname $SCRIPT)
 lockfile -r3 -l120 orders.queue.lock
 python accept-orders.py "$@"
 rm -f orders.queue.lock
+
diff --git a/process/process-orders.py b/process/process-orders.py
index 2b3e5c350..4d19dde78 100755
--- a/process/process-orders.py
+++ b/process/process-orders.py
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ for line in lines:
 tmpfile.close()
 
 openlog("orders")
+unlink(queue_file)
 
 for line in lines:
     tokens = split(line[:-1], ' ')