diff --git a/src/commands/kv/write_bulk.rs b/src/commands/kv/write_bulk.rs
index 5b709f680..e3406c4fb 100644
--- a/src/commands/kv/write_bulk.rs
+++ b/src/commands/kv/write_bulk.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 extern crate base64;
 
 use cloudflare::framework::apiclient::ApiClient;
-use percent_encoding::{percent_encode, PATH_SEGMENT_ENCODE_SET};
 use walkdir::WalkDir;
 
 use std::ffi::OsString;
@@ -102,9 +101,6 @@ fn generate_key(path: &Path, directory: &Path) -> Result<String, failure::Error>
         "found a non-UTF-8 path, {:?}",
         path_with_forward_slash
     ));
-    let path_bytes = path.as_bytes();
 
-    // we use PATH_SEGMENT_ENCODE_SET since we're encoding paths, this will turn / into %2F,
-    // which is needed for the API call to put a `/` into the key.
-    Ok(percent_encode(path_bytes, PATH_SEGMENT_ENCODE_SET).to_string())
+    Ok(path.to_string())
 }