diff --git a/requests/__init__.py b/requests/__init__.py
index 446500b..8257b61 100644
--- a/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/requests/__init__.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2015 Kenneth Reitz'
 
 # Attempt to enable urllib3's SNI support, if possible
 try:
-    from .packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
+    from urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
     pyopenssl.inject_into_urllib3()
 except ImportError:
     pass
diff --git a/requests/adapters.py b/requests/adapters.py
index 02e0dd1..daae42e 100644
--- a/requests/adapters.py
+++ b/requests/adapters.py
@@ -11,22 +11,22 @@ and maintain connections.
 import socket
 
 from .models import Response
-from .packages.urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager, proxy_from_url
-from .packages.urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
-from .packages.urllib3.util import Timeout as TimeoutSauce
-from .packages.urllib3.util.retry import Retry
+from urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager, proxy_from_url
+from urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
+from urllib3.util import Timeout as TimeoutSauce
+from urllib3.util.retry import Retry
 from .compat import urlparse, basestring
 from .utils import (DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH, get_encoding_from_headers,
                     prepend_scheme_if_needed, get_auth_from_url, urldefragauth)
 from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ConnectTimeoutError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as _HTTPError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import MaxRetryError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ProxyError as _ProxyError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ProtocolError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import SSLError as _SSLError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ResponseError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ConnectTimeoutError
+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as _HTTPError
+from urllib3.exceptions import MaxRetryError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ProxyError as _ProxyError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ProtocolError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
+from urllib3.exceptions import SSLError as _SSLError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ResponseError
 from .cookies import extract_cookies_to_jar
 from .exceptions import (ConnectionError, ConnectTimeout, ReadTimeout, SSLError,
                          ProxyError, RetryError)
diff --git a/requests/compat.py b/requests/compat.py
index 40bb6c5..4232288 100644
--- a/requests/compat.py
+++ b/requests/compat.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 pythoncompat
 """
 
-from .packages import chardet
+import chardet
 
 import sys
 
diff --git a/requests/exceptions.py b/requests/exceptions.py
index 89135a8..b70c525 100644
--- a/requests/exceptions.py
+++ b/requests/exceptions.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ requests.exceptions
 This module contains the set of Requests' exceptions.
 
 """
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
 
 
 class RequestException(IOError):
diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 419cf0a..131b88d 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
 
 from .auth import HTTPBasicAuth
 from .cookies import cookiejar_from_dict, get_cookie_header
-from .packages.urllib3.fields import RequestField
-from .packages.urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
-from .packages.urllib3.util import parse_url
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import (
+from urllib3.fields import RequestField
+from urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
+from urllib3.util import parse_url
+from urllib3.exceptions import (
     DecodeError, ReadTimeoutError, ProtocolError, LocationParseError)
 from .exceptions import (
     HTTPError, MissingSchema, InvalidURL, ChunkedEncodingError,
diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index 9a51f33..22bd226 100644
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from .hooks import default_hooks, dispatch_hook
 from .utils import to_key_val_list, default_headers, to_native_string, DEFAULT_PORTS
 from .exceptions import (
     TooManyRedirects, InvalidSchema, ChunkedEncodingError, ContentDecodingError)
-from .packages.urllib3._collections import RecentlyUsedContainer
+from urllib3._collections import RecentlyUsedContainer
 from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
 
 from .adapters import HTTPAdapter
diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index cf7c722..690b3ed 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@ def test_prepare_unicode_url():
 
 
 def test_urllib3_retries():
-    from requests.packages.urllib3.util import Retry
+    from urllib3.util import Retry
     s = requests.Session()
     s.mount('http://', HTTPAdapter(max_retries=Retry(
         total=2, status_forcelist=[500]