diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2dd462343..abb36184d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ hex = "0.4.0"
 sha2 = "0.8.0"
 rand = "0.7.0"
 smallvec = "1.0.0"
-reqwest = "0.10.0"
+reqwest = { version = "0.10.0", features = ["blocking", "json"] }
 num-derive = "0.3.0"
 num-traits = "0.2.6"
 async-smtp = { git = "https://github.com/async-email/async-smtp" }
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ path = "examples/repl/main.rs"
 
 
 [features]
-default = ["nightly", "ringbuf", "reqwest/blocking", "reqwest/json"]
+default = ["nightly", "ringbuf"]
 vendored = ["native-tls/vendored", "reqwest/native-tls-vendored"]
 nightly = ["pgp/nightly"]
 ringbuf = ["pgp/ringbuf"]