Paste your Thank You List
Messy is fine — paste as much as you've got.
On a phone? Selecting a long list is fiddly — this is easier on a computer. If you only grab part of it, paste the rest after and we'll merge them.
Getting your list off Amazon
Three steps, about a minute.
Open the "Thank you and returns" tab
On your Amazon registry, click "Thank you and returns" in the top nav — on a phone, tap "Menu" at the top right and pick it there. That loads Your Thank You List — every gift bought through Amazon, one row each.
Scroll all the way to the bottom
Amazon loads rows as you scroll, so anything you haven't scrolled past isn't on the page yet — and won't be in your copy.
Select all, copy, paste
Cmd+A then Cmd+C (Ctrl on Windows). Don't tidy it up first — the nav, the filters and the buttons all get thrown away automatically.
This tool is free, and it is brought to you by ShipNote
We print, stamp and mail the actual thank-you cards
The spreadsheet is the easy half. The hard half is forty envelopes, forty stamps and an evening you were going to spend doing something else. Paste the same list, pick a card, write one message — we personalise every card with the giver's name and their gift, and put them in the mail next business day.
- Real postcard stock, printed and addressed for you
- Every card names the gift that person actually gave
- $1.99 a card on 10+, postage included
Can't find the “Thank you and returns” tab?
On a phone there is no tab bar. Tap Menu at the top right of your registry — not the Amazon account menu — and pick Thank you and returns from the drawer that slides up:
It sits in your registry's own top navigation, between “Add items” and “Benefits” — not in your Amazon account menu, which is where most people look first. This is it:
Either way it loads Your Thank You List — one row per gift bought through Amazon, with the purchaser's name, the gift, the date, and any note they left. That whole page is what you paste above.
Can you export an Amazon registry to a spreadsheet (Excel or Google Sheets)?
Not directly — there is no export button and no CSV download. The Thank You List is a view-only checklist, built for ticking people off rather than for getting the data out. The practical export is to copy the whole page and run the text through something that can pull the people out of it.
What you get back here is a .csv, not an .xlsx — the format every spreadsheet app opens without asking. Open it in Excel, Numbers or LibreOffice and it lays out in columns; in Google Sheets it comes in through File → Open. The file is written with a byte-order mark so Excel on Windows reads the accents in people's names correctly instead of mangling them — the usual reason a downloaded CSV opens looking broken.
This catches people out because every other part of the registry feels like a database. Amazon knows the purchaser, the gift, the date and often the shipping address — it simply never offers them to you in a portable form. Where an address is missing you get a “Why no address?” link rather than the data.
The workarounds people land on are all worse than they sound. Retyping 40 rows takes an evening and introduces the typos that get cards returned. The browser userscript that circulates for this needs an extension installed, developer tools open, and a value copied by hand out of a network request — a real answer for a developer and a dead end for everyone else. Copy-and-paste is the one route that needs nothing but the page you are already looking at.
Why do some givers have no address?
An address appears when the giver shipped the gift directly to you and shared their details. For digital gifts, gift cards, and anything shipped to the giver's own home, Amazon shows a “Why no address?” link instead — and no tool can recover what Amazon never shows.
Gift cards and digital gifts are among the usual reasons, which is why a list with gaps is normal rather than a sign something went wrong. Those people still belong on your list — you just need their address from somewhere else, whether that is your own contacts, the guest list, or asking them.
What do you do with the list once you have it?
Most people use it two ways: as a spreadsheet to track who has been thanked, or as a mailing list to actually send the cards. The data is the same either way — the second just saves you the envelopes.
If you are handling the cards yourself, a spreadsheet is genuinely the right tool: one row per person, a column for the gift, and a column you tick when the note goes out. For combining several registries into one list, our guide on managing gifts from multiple registries walks through it.
If you would rather not do the envelopes, ShipNote prints, stamps and mails real postcards from the same list — 10 cards or more come to $1.99 each, all in, mailed the next business day. Our walkthrough for Amazon registries covers the whole run.
Skip the spreadsheet entirely
We verify every address, print the cards, stamp them and put them in the mail. A hundred thank-yous is the same amount of work as one.
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