diff --git a/nsqd/channel.go b/nsqd/channel.go
index 3f2e0a56e..1d281ef3c 100644
--- a/nsqd/channel.go
+++ b/nsqd/channel.go
@@ -325,22 +325,6 @@ func (c *Channel) put(m *Message) error {
 		// Because messagePump is intermittently unavailable while writing a msg to a client
 		// we continue to have higher priority channels in the select loop, this means at each
 		// attempt a higher priority channel can still win
-		select {
-		case c.zoneLocalMsgChan <- m:
-			atomic.AddUint64(&c.zoneLocalMsgCount, 1)
-			return nil
-		default:
-		}
-		select {
-		case c.zoneLocalMsgChan <- m:
-			atomic.AddUint64(&c.zoneLocalMsgCount, 1)
-			return nil
-		case c.regionLocalMsgChan <- m:
-			atomic.AddUint64(&c.regionLocalMsgCount, 1)
-			return nil
-		default:
-		}
-
 		select {
 		case c.zoneLocalMsgChan <- m:
 			atomic.AddUint64(&c.zoneLocalMsgCount, 1)