diff --git a/script/queue_size.rb b/script/queue_size.rb
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+++ b/script/queue_size.rb
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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+require_relative '../lib/postal/config'
+require 'mysql2'
+
+client = Mysql2::Client.new(:host => Postal.config.main_db.host, :username => Postal.config.main_db.username, :password => Postal.config.main_db.password, :port => Postal.config.main_db.port, :database => Postal.config.main_db.database)
+result = client.query("SELECT COUNT(id) as size FROM `queued_messages` WHERE retry_after IS NULL OR retry_after > ADDTIME(UTC_TIMESTAMP(), '30')")
+puts result.to_a.first['size']