diff --git a/examples/demo_receive.py b/examples/complete_receive.py
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rename from examples/demo_receive.py
rename to examples/complete_receive.py
diff --git a/examples/demo_send.py b/examples/complete_send.py
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rename from examples/demo_send.py
rename to examples/complete_send.py
diff --git a/examples/simple_receive.py b/examples/simple_receive.py
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+"""
+Example receiving a message using the SimpleQueue interface.
+"""
+
+from kombu import BrokerConnection
+
+#: Create connection
+#: If hostname, userid, password and virtual_host is not specified
+#: the values below are the default, but listed here so it can
+#: be easily changed.
+connection = BrokerConnection(hostname="localhost",
+                              userid="guest",
+                              password="guest",
+                              virtual_host="/")
+
+
+#: SimpleQueue mimics the interface of the Python Queue module.
+#: First argument can either be a queue name or a kombu.Queue object.
+#: If a name, then the queue will be declared with the name as the queue
+#: name, exchange name and routing key.
+queue = connection.SimpleQueue("kombu_demo")
+message = queue.get(block=True, timeout=10)
+message.ack()
+print(message.payload)
diff --git a/examples/simple_send.py b/examples/simple_send.py
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+"""
+
+Example that sends a single message and exits using the simple interface.
+
+You can use `simple_receive.py` (or `complete_receive.py`) to receive the
+message sent.
+
+"""
+
+from kombu import BrokerConnection
+
+#: Create connection
+#: If hostname, userid, password and virtual_host is not specified
+#: the values below are the default, but listed here so it can
+#: be easily changed.
+connection = BrokerConnection(hostname="localhost",
+                              userid="guest",
+                              password="guest",
+                              virtual_host="/")
+
+
+#: SimpleQueue mimics the interface of the Python Queue module.
+#: First argument can either be a queue name or a kombu.Queue object.
+#: If a name, then the queue will be declared with the name as the queue
+#: name, exchange name and routing key.
+queue = connection.SimpleQueue("kombu_demo")
+queue.put({"hello": "world"}, serializer="json", compression="zlib")