In 1842, the Danish Postal Minister, Count Otto Danneskjoll-Samsøe, organized a committee to consider the issue of postal reform. Four years later, the committee concluded that such reform was not needed. Otto Danneskiolle-Samsøe did not make such a decision. He succeeded in promoting his idea of postal reform in 1848, when King Frederick VII ascended the throne. However, the adoption of the new postal law was prevented by the uprising in Schleswig-Holstein in March 1848 and the subsequent Danish-Prussian War. Postage stamps were canceled with numbered stamps, which consisted of a number enclosed in several circles. The numbers corresponded to a specific post office: “1” - Copenhagen, “2” - office in Hamburg, “5” - Aarhus, etc.